Quite possibly the least interesting thing I’ve seen from Bertolucci. Film as metaphor can be a wonderfully exciting thing but this is all that 1900 has going for it. The characters are vulgar (which makes sense since the film is a treatise on communism) and unappealing (not necessary but nice when I have to watch them for 5 hours) and the performances down the line are mediocre, especially when paired with everything else going on in the mid 70’s. The metaphor of the film is pretty embarrassingly on the nose and says nothing that wasn’t clear within the first 30 minutes. I’m a sucker for a good epic and this was nothing of the sort. Overlong and banal.