1900

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marco l @Lupotto Jan 18 A masterpiece of cinematography. Total devotion to chemical film intended for huge screen. Something today unaffordable if not mixed with useless cgi cosplayers and idiotic compulsive shootings. Unmissable See more Steve D @RT35616104 04/20/2024 Decent but far FAR too long. See more C @RT89813516 09/21/2023 1900 (1976) was an excessively long, violent, and obscene movie. There was no drama or romance. It basically is a horror film guised as a historical drama. A lot of violence against women and animals. No heros, just thugs. Neither De Niro's nor Sutherland's best movie. A lot better historical drama to watch is Doctor Zhivago (1965). Seems like Hollywood was forgetting how to make a good movie, over a decade later. See more s r @ScottR 05/05/2022 1001 movies to see before you die. A great cast squandered on a poor political drama and mediocre direction. It manages to take on Italian politics from 1900 to post WW2. The poor dialogue that didn't translate well was also undermined by the poor dubbing. It was tedious despite some good memorable scenes and contrived situations / cinematography. It was STG DVD. See more William L @RT77267842 10/02/2021 You can add all the acting talent, all the on-location shooting, all the bloated runtime, and all the full-frontal Robert De Niro nudity that you want to, that doesn't make a film an epic, or any good. 1900 is a grand production without any profound statement to make; massive scale, incredible production value, and grand ambition are wasted at the hands of a script that seems to avoid character depth like the plague (the conflicting personal features of De Niro's Alfredo, born wealthy and good-natured but unable to avoid the influence of his status, is the sole character with more than one actual dimension) and often features dialogue that makes you scratch your head. Depardieu's Olmo = unrelenting idealist hero, Sutherland's Attila = irredeemable Fascist monster, and Alfredo is intended to be left in between but any internal conflict is seldom explored. With a scale that could allow depth and passion, Bertloucci's film has the moral complexity of a Frank Capra film. While the end result's great strength is its on-location production, without which we wouldn't be able to witness such beautiful and diverse shooting locations, this is also the film's critical flaw, as the international production incorporating established American actors ends up becoming a film produced from the ground up without an original language. No matter what version you watch, there is always going to be some awkward dubbing, making many of the powerful moments seem paper-thin and the pandering moments feel satirical. The child actors are poor even by child actor standards, and while we do get a great (though brief) performance from Lancaster and a wide-ranging De Niro rather than the reserved, sullen archetype that he would come to embody, they are integrated so erratically as to feel wasted. We are left with a film that had the means but not the will to execute on a grand vision of political dynamics and personal change. Old Sterling Hayden sounds (and looks) an awful lot like J.K. Simmons. (2/5) See more andrea c @Charst 09/04/2021 Epico racconto che riassume i primi 50 anni del secolo ponendo al centro di tutto il rapporto tra due ragazzi appartenenti a due classi sociali diverse, e del terzo incomodo che si piazza tra di loro cercando di allontanarli più di quanto la condizione sociale non faccia già. Sullo sfondo delle campagne Romagnole, l'azienda agricola Berlingheri fornisce tutti i pretesti per raccontare delle profonde mutazioni nelle convinzioni dell'epoca, e degli sviluppi politici susseguenti alle guerre. A tratti un po' troppo laborioso, lascia lunghi spazi alla vita contadina e nel finale non convince del tutto per qualche interrogativo di troppo che lascia. See more Read all reviews

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