Citizen Kane: an important movie!

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2010)

NO TREPASSING
With no doubt, Citizen Kane is a film major and even more if you put the movie in his time.
It is a very modern film by his language, his approach and design screenplay. With the support of a strong plot that literally holds us in suspense until the final images and a construction of history based on a short documentary and flashbacks, the film's structure is very well done and very innovative. And although those can be a bit bogged down in the relations of Mr. Kane as for example the relation with his singer wife, but this brings us finally to Mr. Kane's character, his world he has built, symbolized by his unfinished palace Xanadu, his isolation and finally his descent.
The distribution is deserving and original. The actors are novice in front of a camera and they are remarkably and comfortable for all the tricks and different points of view of the plot.
In addition, the film is very good, intelligent and technically controlled, supported by shadows effect and symbolic and evocative details of the history.
So we have a plot of the most captivating, beautiful and skillful narration, effective distribution and flawless execution. On those points there is only one conclusion: if you had not watched yet, Get Citizen Kane! This film is a must-see. And even more, for all lovers of cinema, even if you like it with less enthusiasm than reflected in these lines, it is a work that marked and still marks the history of cinema.
And remember...
NO TREPASSING
NB: I notice, "RKO 281" (1999); a very interesting mivoe about the building of the film citizen kane with a lot of informations about political, society, background,... environment.
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