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1900 (1977)

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Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 7  Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.1/10

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Runtime: 5 hrs 15 mins

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's vast historical melodrama used the massive popular, critical, and financial success of its predecessor, the scandalous LAST TANGO IN PARIS, to mount a production of epic scale. Cut down to four hours for its American release, the film utilizes an all-star Hollywood... Bernardo Bertolucci's vast historical melodrama used the massive popular, critical, and financial success of its predecessor, the scandalous LAST TANGO IN PARIS, to mount a production of epic scale. Cut down to four hours for its American release, the film utilizes an all-star Hollywood cast to tell its heavily Marxist tale of Italian peasants during the twentieth century. Two boys born on the same day are destined for divergent paths; Olmo (played by Gerard Depardeiu as an adult) is born to peasant parents and will become a passionate socialist, while Alfredo's (Robert De Niro as an adult) bourgeois, landowning origins will lead him to ultimately embrace fascism. Driven by a sincere hope for and belief in political change, Bertolucci's film is nonetheless made up of very humane individual stories; it concentrates on highly personal experiences of a politically-charged time, which color the little dramas of love, sex, family, and community. It is at once an epic poem and a political manifesto, and it is the product of a director who was unabashedly communist in his youth, contrasting markedly with later works like 2003's THE DREAMERS. The fact that 1900 managed to get released by a major American studio during the height of the Cold War is remarkable in itself, and this fact possibly accounts for the film's lack of popular success when first encountered by audiences. The final sequence, which portrays the Italian peasants overthrowing their fascist masters and dancing beneath the red flag of Communism, sparked controversy on all sides, with the left criticizing it for historical inaccuracy, and the right obviously inflamed by the glorification of Communism. Bertolucci himself called it a dream sequence, an anticipation of the revolution yet to come, and indeed the entire movie is something of a celebration of the human spirit and the will to overcome. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Burt Lancaster, Donald Sutherland

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Composer: Ennio Morricone

DVD Info

Release:

May 12, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case - Sensormatic
  • Widescreen - 16.9
  • 2-Disc Set

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono - Italian
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround - English
  • Dolby Digital Mono - French

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

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12/07/07
Fran Hortop
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The mannered elegance of the camerawork and lighting cocoons the whole sad mess within a veneer of utterly spurious 'style.'

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01/26/06
Time Out
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2.5/4

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

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12/07/07
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Great moments stud Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 Marxist epic, but the end result is ambiguous.

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12/07/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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This is my favorite film of all time. Incredible.

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11/06/05
Cole Smithey
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4/5

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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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2/4

What high hopes were inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 -- and how few of them are realized.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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03/12/04
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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A colossal bore.

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02/04/04
Dennis Schwartz
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3/5

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11/18/03
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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1/5

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07/08/03
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com
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2.5/5

It's a shapeless mass of film stock containing some brilliant moments and a lot more that are singularly uninspired.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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07/29/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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If you've never seen it, go; it's just a matter of too much of a good thing.

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01/01/00
Kathleen Maher
Austin Chronicle
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