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Play trailer Poster for 1900 R Released Aug 15, 1976 4h 3m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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This expansive period drama follows two childhood friends in northern Italy during the early 20th century. Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro) and Olmo Dalcò (Gérard Depardieu) grow up as close companions despite their class differences. However, they drift apart as adults, Alfredo embracing his landowning heritage and Olmo championing workers' rights. As the years go by, they see the rise of fascism in their country, and eventually their values find them directly in conflict.
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David Robinson Times (UK) The film falls away into simplistic political history quite out of scale with the ambitions of the rest. Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Patrick Gibbs Daily Telegraph (UK) Some finely composed pictures and some useful performances, but a film of no intellectual interest. Its purpose would seem to be to celebrate the inexorable march of Communism, which will no doubt be very satisfying to the comrades. Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Sight & Sound Its eccentricity, and the incorporation of this eccentricity into the staid format of the historical spectacular, proves to be its redemption. Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) I cynically enjoyed 1900 because it confirmed for me that Bertolucci is an interior decorator of megalomaniacal aspirations. [Full review in Spanish] Jan 18, 2024 Full Review Michael Bronski Gay Community News (Boston) It creates a complete, alternate universe that seduces you with its artistic and political visions and gives you not only the insight to what has happened, but what might be possible. Sep 16, 2022 Full Review Mandy Merck Spare Rib Patriarchal power is not only not challenged, it's positively celebrated. Sep 22, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D Decent but far FAR too long. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review C 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. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/21/23 Full Review Josh G A beautiful soundtrack set to the slowest moving story ever made, all the cast are amazing it's so so damn long, I watched in three segments, it struggles with the same flaws as south pacific not showing parts of the war. But ever shot is a masterpiece must taken forever to film. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/23/23 Full Review Emmanuel D Novenceto had everything to be one of the greatest movie of all time, unfortunately signore Bertolucci chose a quasi-documentary direction, which turned an epic romantic titan to a cold, cruel and melancholic colossus. Yet, the cast is amazing, the natural colors are beautiful, the story and the themes are fierce, the vilains are awfully great, and signore Morricone is at his best. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/10/23 Full Review s r 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. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review William L 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) Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/04/21 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis This expansive period drama follows two childhood friends in northern Italy during the early 20th century. Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro) and Olmo Dalcò (Gérard Depardieu) grow up as close companions despite their class differences. However, they drift apart as adults, Alfredo embracing his landowning heritage and Olmo championing workers' rights. As the years go by, they see the rise of fascism in their country, and eventually their values find them directly in conflict.
Director
Bernardo Bertolucci
Producer
Alberto Grimaldi
Screenwriter
Franco Arcalli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Bertolucci
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Italian
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 15, 1976, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$66.1K
Runtime
4h 3m
Sound Mix
Mono, Surround
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