Rosebud

Rating: 10/10 (15 July 2000)

Oscar winning Writer/Director/Actor/Producer Orson Wells gives one of the best American films ever made (AFI thought it was number one, but I'm not quite sure on that) as the title giving enough meaning as it is. Wells tells the story of fictional (yet based from) newspaper owner and politician Charles Foster Kane (also played by Wells) who is remembered in life as in death. Quite a complicated film (or maybe just too dark) for many people, but for me it is just right for the drama presented. Brilliant, but (unfortunately) over-hyped to be the greatest film ever while being a great achievement despite. Only Oscar went to original screenplay (out of 9) for Wells and co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz, losing it's awards (yet well deserved) mainly to other great achiever "How Green Was My Valley". A+