About
Napoléon

Rightfully considered a landmark of silent film, seriously rivalling Griffith’s celebrated epics for pure scope and bravura. It is a long haul, with one or two sequences admittedly being less engaging than others as well, but it’s those others that exactly underpin this behemoth and its compelling concoction of unfettered grandioso filmmaking. The groundbreaking technical experimentation (trumping Dziga Vertov’s efforts in Man with a Movie Camera) highlights both remarkable prescience and the clear presence of a madman behind the camera.