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1900 (Novecento)

1900 (Novecento) (1976)

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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

R, 5 hr. 15 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Dec 5, 2006

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (8) | DVD (12)

Great moments stud Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 Marxist epic, but the end result is ambiguous.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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What high hopes were inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 -- and how few of them are realized.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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It's a shapeless mass of film stock containing some brilliant moments and a lot more that are singularly uninspired.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comments (2)
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The sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro and the beautiful score by Ennio Morricone are reason enough to rejoice.

May 25, 2012 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

A disappointing transfer of Bertolucci's grandest gesture, Olive Films' three-disc set of 1900 is nevertheless significant for presenting his most epic epic in its most complete form.

May 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

"1900" (made in 1976) is Bernardo Bertolucci's crowning achievement of collectivist socio-political cinema.

January 18, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

This is a handsome film with fierce and heartfelt ambition that succeeds in capturing something of the extreme social turmoil of pre-war Italy.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
Film4

Like a delicious pasta salad, ruined with intermittent slabs of Velveeta cheese.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The mannered elegance of the camerawork and lighting cocoons the whole sad mess within a veneer of utterly spurious 'style.'

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Bertolucci's first failure after a series of masterpieces is an ambitious but structurally shapeless and thematically ambiguous historical epic that doesn't work even in its original cut of five hours.

July 1, 2005 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

A colossal bore.

February 4, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comments (2)
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If you've never seen it, go; it's just a matter of too much of a good thing.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
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'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
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William Dunmyer

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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
Keiko A. --Samurai--
Keiko Aya

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Foreign Titles

  • 1900 (DE)
  • 1900 Part 2 (UK)
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