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Citizen Kane Widely accepted as the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane finds it very hard to live up to its own reputation. Not that it's not a great film, it certainly is, but I have to admit that I do not find it very enjoyable. Certainly, from a technical point of view it is nearly impossible to beat, with its amazing use of deep-focus, mise-en-scène, lighting, and synthesis of realism and cinematic trickery. And its story is suitably enigmatic, requiring several viewings to discover that we know very little more about Charles Foster Kane at the end of the film than we knew at the beginning, when we began our quest, along with the reporter, to find out what Kane's dying word "rosebud" means. Even though I've seen Citizen Kane at least three or four times, I still cannot find a single character to like or identify with. In the final analysis, Citizen Kane is a masterpiece, but a distant and unreachable masterpiece. **** out of **** Cast Directed by Orson Welles Year of Release: 1941 For Further Viewing For Further Reading Page last updated 8/1/04 |
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