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Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the Italian town of Parma, the film's continuity backtracks from Liberation Day in 1945 to the occasion of composer/patriot Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. We follow the lives of two men born on that day in 1901, who grow up to be Alfredo Berlinghieti (Robert De Niro) and Olmo Dalco (Gérard Depardieu). Wealthy Alfredo sinks into
Aug 15, 1976 Wide
Dec 5, 2006
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Great moments stud Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 Marxist epic, but the end result is ambiguous.
What high hopes were inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 -- and how few of them are realized.
It's a shapeless mass of film stock containing some brilliant moments and a lot more that are singularly uninspired.
"1900" (made in 1976) is Bernardo Bertolucci's crowning achievement of collectivist socio-political cinema.
This is a handsome film with fierce and heartfelt ambition that succeeds in capturing something of the extreme social turmoil of pre-war Italy.
Like a delicious pasta salad, ruined with intermittent slabs of Velveeta cheese.
The mannered elegance of the camerawork and lighting cocoons the whole sad mess within a veneer of utterly spurious 'style.'
Bertolucci's first failure after a series of masterpieces
A colossal bore.
If you've never seen it, go; it's just a matter of too much of a good thing.
'1900' is a gargantuan, multi-lingual, five-hour epic that has some inspired moments but for the most part spins its wheels. Very often it is laughably bad. Writer/director Bernardo Bertolucci seems to have been inspired by the 'Godfather' epic, even to the point where he hired Robert De Niro as one of his lead
December 26, 2011
Super Reviewer
Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento has five hours and fifteen minutes and before we know it this historical epic ends and we're left craving for more. That's the ultimate grace of Bertolucci's masterpiece: one never feels the movie's length; it flows and involves us so hypnotically in its story that we lose sense of time.
February 23, 2011
Super Reviewer
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