I saw it once and I said "very good", I saw it twice and it blew my mind. I really didn't felt the passing of 5 hours in front of the screen, because this wonderful movie just kept me glued to that. There's not one exceeding photogram in this, and many sequences are cinema-anthology worth. This film features an incredible cast as well, with stunning acting performances by Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland (great and disquieting), Sterling Hayden and the superb Burt Lancaster. Only Robert De Niro is not shining here, maybe because he was not very suitable for his part. Vittorio Storaro's cinematography is amazing as always, and that makes me consider him the best photography director in movies history (just see Apocalypse Now). The locations are, as always in Bertolucci, simply astonishing, and the vision of the wide farmers' yard just moved me. If you're searching for an accurate historical reproduction, don't watch it. Bertolucci just talks about a time he didn't know, according to what he heard from other people's relations, and adding a little fantastic representation, which is the peculiarity of all of his works, that moves the watchers and makes them dream.
Review of 1900
