The film falls away into simplistic political history quite out of scale with the ambitions of the rest.

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.

Its eccentricity, and the incorporation of this eccentricity into the staid format of the historical spectacular, proves to be its redemption.

I cynically enjoyed 1900 because it confirmed for me that Bertolucci is an interior decorator of megalomaniacal aspirations. [Full review in Spanish]