răpciune
3Sep11
plus the soundtrack, which is so hollywoodishly tacky.
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răpciune
3Sep11
very picturesque, pointing at many painting techniques, the film is like a long walk through a museum, it did in the 70s what "girl with a pearl earring" did 30 years later: tried to find in the landscape the natural occurences of colours and hazes that determined a whole national painting school. but despite its beauty, at the end you feel like you've only peeped into an academist collection: pretty but empty.
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răpciune
4Sep11
as i progress with watching, i realize this looks like totally Nicolaescu, it's got all the ingredients of a huge machinery of heart-breaking propaganada - i now realize where Sergiu got the inspiration - only it has the unbearable stench of operetta, not even opera, contrasting with Nico's frowning, unbreakable seriousness and his deep commitment to his "mission". it's like a parody of eisenstein.
Allan
12Jul11
oh so very very overlong and baggy, really bad dubbing, uniformly awful dialog, an awful lot of terrible acting (with the exception of Sutherland, Lancaster, Hayden and Valli - everyone else, rubbish).. at least it looked fantastic and had rather good enough politics, that's really the best I can say, oh and for a 5 hour long film it wasn't very boring..
Joel
28May11
An epic flawed masterwork. The lighting, colour, cast and scope have everything going for them but the film falters at many steps and is given to excesses both in sexuality and violence that somewhat held me at a distance, once again, although Italy is probably my favourite movie producing country something needs to be sorted with the various dubbing! So frustrating!
msmichel
6Apr11
Bertolucci's 1976 epic just doesn't stand the passage of time. Overlong, disjointed and visually underwhelming. So many different acting styles abound leaving characters often overwrought and cartoonish. First hour featuring Lancaster is interesting but story slips away with the passage of time. Visually hard to believe Storaro shot this one. Remember seeing the 311 version in the mid 90's. Rewatched the 243m.
Steve Macfarlane
20Jan11
The constantly swerving TV-style camera denies the viewer the most basic pleasures of Storraro/Bertolucci's worst films, namely the visual compositions. Pedantic, simplistic, childish and hideously ill-conceived. Maybe the worst film I've ever seen; by the time Donald Sutherland impales an old woman on the iron gates of her villa, you have to laugh (or weep, since there are still two hours left.)
Bret Bynum
3Jan11
A ten minute movie (if that) stretched out to five and a half hours. This movie had scenes of beauty but it wasn't worth the agonizing experience. Bertolucci is very talented filmmaker and I saw a lot of ideas in this film, but he had no control over this heavy project!
Luca
17Aug10
Dalcò Olmo, walking barefoot on a long dining table, watched by all his poor peasants family, addressed by his grandfather on life, love and socialism. And Morricone music playing. De Niro and Depardieu at their best, with Donald Sutherland as an archetypical fascist villain. An epic tale of politics, erotism and heroism in early XX century rural Italy. Bertolucci's best movie.
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Stephen Campbell
15Jul10
Something of a cursed movie(The Grimaldis who produced the film ,messed about with the running time) The 5 hour cut is a thing of flawed grandiose beauty. It lags very badly in places and the politics is way too obvious . But apart from that if you stick with it there are rewards to be had
Charles Deckert
14Jul10
I think the depravity of Sutherland's Attila was more of a personal characterization used to explore the "anarchy of power", an idea best expressed by Pasolini (a predecessor and mentor to Bertolucci) in his film Salo. Attila's sadistic and Machiavellian aspects become more apparent when the fascism of Italy becomes more predominant, allowing him to further express these sides of himself.
Ultra Kebab
2Apr10
the ending is an awful mess, i agree with that. but murdering children? that was everyday business in fascism.
Ultra Kebab
24Mar10
@krinkle: where is your problem? would you rather like the movie if some of the fascists were likeable? do you even have an idea what being poor in europe at that time meant? yes, the movie is political, but that's one of it's major qualities.
richmondhill
23Feb10
A magnificent, sweeping fresco intertwining many great themes: country with family, loyalty with guilt, crumbled friendships, crossed honour, etc. Yet like many great group portraits it lacks an obvious centre and doesn’t quite add up to a conclusive whole. You cannot condense a country into the head of a pin. Novocento has epic intent, but very human constraints.
rowdyman
30Dec09
1900 is a great film but I'd recommend doing a little reading on the period before you watch it. There's a lot that goes unsaid and much of it has to do with the socio-political atmosphere of the times. Plus, how many other movies have De Niro and Depardieu together with Burt Lancaster. I first saw this film in German with Dutch sub-titles. I couldn't understand a thing but I was still enthralled. Of course, as with any Bertolucci film it's gorgeously filmed.