Title: Self-indulgent folly
Product review: It is hard to credit, let alone convey, the full catastrophe that is the creative disaster of Bertolucci's execrable film "1900".What could he have been thinking? How could he abandon narrative integrity to the cheap tricks of propaganda? How could any serious film maker spend millions making a film where no one does anything that is emotionally believable? This film is blatantly didactic, but even in that it fails because Bertolucci lacked the simple discipline to confine his work to a single didactic purpose.The enormous talents of Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, and Donald Sutherland - all wasted by the unmitigated self-indulgence of Bertolucci, whose reputation stands badly dented by this film.Unredeemed by insight into human nature or the emotions felt by real people, this film is five hours of blithering nonsense.
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