Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on June 23, 2003 at 18:17:47

In Reply to: "Bertolluci's failed film, "1900," " Failed with whom? American teenagers? posted by Victor Khomenko on June 23, 2003 at 07:52:59:

it is by Bertolluci: one expects more of a god of film. Second, the cast is beyond reproach.
That being said, I agree with your placement of it; similarly, a fine winemaker's worst effort is better than a mediocre one's best bottling.
No matter its considerable faults, I still find myself watching it every couple of years.
Now, as to your high opinion of "The Garden of the Finzi-Contini"....were it not for Dominique Sanda, it would be forgettable...altogether too self-consciously self-pitying.