...don't get it...

Rating: Null/10 (21 August 1999)

Add me to the list of those who just don't get it - why this film is so great. I concede Welles used innovative techniques, but technique alone cannot carry a movie. It is self-consciously important, never trusting its audience, and lacks that nuance so necessary to capture a viewer in any visual medium.
To work, a movie must produce an emotion in the viewer. This one seems to affect primarily those who are seriously interested in the craft of movie-making. For the rest of us, boredom is the word that comes to mind.