1976/2006
Bernardo Bertolucci’s sweeping, staggering epic of Italian life, love and death is at last available for consumption in its five-hour cut. Paramount’s exceptional two-disc set provides a lush, lovely print that highlights Vittorio Storaro’s peerless photography, as well as an opportunity to appreciate Bertolucci’s unexpurgated, if erratic, opus that features a pair of terrific, brave performances from Robert De Niro and G
This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2007.