The Legend of 1900
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Movie Reviews of The Legend of 1900
Movie Review: My favorite Tim Roth movie...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie everyone should enjoy. There are enough good reviews here with wonderful explainations of the story, so if those dont help i dont know what will. I'm a big fan of Tim Roth and this is by far his best performance. I also love the piano; there are many wonderful songs here as well. I only wonder if he actually played it himself, it sure looks like it, and if he did it would be that much more impressive. Trust me and the rest of these reviews and GET THIS MOVIE!!Movie Review: Good movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
Arrived promptly, packaged well. I saw this movie a few years back and liked it, but couldn't remember the name of it. Interestingly, my piano instructor happened to mention this movie to me and said he'd never seen it; so I ordered one for my own library, and for him, too. Movie Review: why not?!
Summary: 3 Stars
abstract enough for you to appreciate its symbolism visually
fun enough for you to enjoy BAM!
Movie Review: Enticing fantasy
Summary: 4 Stars
Legend of 1900 (1998), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Tornatore favors dreamers. Here he depicts the travelers to America, in a liner full of immigrants from various parts of Europe. They arrive, get ecstatic to see the Statue of Liberty, America is in sight. But not all of them get out. A baby is born there--in 1900--and never leaves the ship. He is a gifted musician, plays the piano and composes original and exciting music, and his sidekick who plays the trumpet urges him to get out and visit New York. He stays in the ship until it blown to pieces. Tim Roth is superb as the alienated man who finds in music and the piano keys a sort of infinity which gives him all the space he requires. Whether this is a metaphor for musical eternity, or self-sufficiency, we do not know. Stylistically glamorous, the movie offers generous soundtrack music, reminding somewhat of Being There, with Peter Sellers, a man who only lived in a garden and learned life by watching TV. A sort of modern Gregor Samsa, Tim Roth, nicknamed 1900, achieves a self-willed immortality by denying any other existence but that of the self. The piano has only a definite number of notes, but its music can achieve infinity. A human being that does not need the external world. And an America on which he never sets foot, for the infinitude inside him suffices. The ship, eventually a useless wreck, is blown up, and he with it. Incidentally, by missing America, he also missed the girl, the only thing he really wanted, but lost when she left the ship. She had understood his music. But she too is absorbed by this alien world.
Movie Review: Excellent, see this movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Why are all the gems overlooked? It's sad, intelligent, funny, heartwrenching, dramatic, and everything a movie should be. Please see this movie, you will not regret it. Please.