BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI’S 1900: HAIL, FOLLY! – Review by Pauline Kael
20/01/2018
Bertolucci is trying to transcend the audience appeal of his lyrical, psychological films. He is trying to make a people’s film by drawing on the mythology of movies, as if it were a collective memory. 1900 is a romantic moviegoer’s vision of the class struggle—a love poem for the movies as well as for the life of those who live communally on the land.