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List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $2 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 04 November, 1977 DVD Release : 05 December, 2006 |
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1900 (Special Collector's Edition) description 1900 is one of Bernardo Bertolucci's adventures in epic filmmaking that never found the reception he had hoped for. Originally more than six hours long, it was chopped down to four hours for its U.S. release and as a result looked, well, choppy. Eventually, he restored it to five hours--but one wonders at all the effort on behalf of this alternately muddled and stunning story. The film, with a decidedly socialist agenda, examines two lives that begin the same year in rural Italy: the weak-willed son of the aristocracy (Robert De Niro) and the hardy, courageous son of peasants (Gerard Depardieu). They grow up as best friends on the same estate, until class differences pull them apart and then the era's fascist politics divide them for good. Despite strong performances by both leads, as well as Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda, and Burt Lancaster, this one is strictly for Bertolucci's most avid fans. --Marshall Fine |
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| The Italian Neo Realism was indeed, a hitherto in the story of Cinema. Whether Jean Renoir's Tony (1934) has been the first antecedent of this genre, the certain of case is that Bernardo Bertolucci felt an inner call in order to pay a tribute to this genre and decided to build an ambitious and colossal portrait around two families at the eve of the Century but focusing the unsaid details that remain as part of the main structure of the history; in fact we will witness to the arouse of the violence under three different positions: the fascism in two slopes, the political and the social - the tensions among the members of a wealthy family, the sordid oppression of the first Berlinghieri (Burt Lancaster in a towering performance who made us remind Visconti's The leopard) over his employers as well as the complex web of well ordered aspects of the familiar staircase; the slow advance of the black shirt movement embodied by a decadent personage as Attila(Donald Shuterland really shines in this role), the existential boredom personified in Ada (Dominique Sanda) and the presence of an indifferent Alfred who simply let the things go by, but who still keeps a narrow relationship with Olmo (Gerard Depardieu)- who eventually will be the lefty hand, and the spiritual leader of the partisans.
In this sense the violence is not merely a cheap device but is part of way of living and surviving; a huge and emblematic account of the rise and fall of ideals, hopes and illusions that Bertolucci carves in relief so boldly in the sequence final. On the other hand, Alfredo's wedding sequence works out as a well deserved homage to Luchino Visconti It's absolute pertinent that you are aware the director sympathizes for one of these movements but that circumstance doesn't permeate this well made and extensive movie that runs 315 min. Filmed with magisterial good taste, where the marvellous angle shots united to a fabulous edition work surrounded by these enraptured landscapes make of this giant film be part of the crA me de la crA me films that you would never miss, in case you a hard collector of classics of the seventh art. |
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