did not really like it, was bored with it for most of its runtime and while orson's tragedy from citizen kane slightly creeps in, in this one, its still feels so hollow.
i don't find anything that interesting to watch or listen to.
it goes in one ear and out the other.
it still has good performances and great direction but the script and story was not that good.
The Magnificent Ambersons
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Rating
2.5 (1)
Release Date
7/10/1942Runtime
88 minsOverview
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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EnglishBudget
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A stately, intimate chronicle of small-town manners unraveling as jealousy and class anxiety poison the bonds between a mother, her spoiled son, and the man she loves. Welles captures the suffocating textures of domestic resentment with formal precision.
Mood
WistfulMelancholicClaustrophobic
Themes
FamilyLoveComing apartClass
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Meditative
Look
Black and whiteFormalistLong takes
Structure
Linear
Joseph Cotten
Eugene Morgan
Dolores Costello
Isabel Amberson Minafer
Anne Baxter
Lucy Morgan
Tim Holt
George Minafer
Agnes Moorehead
Fanny Minafer
Ray Collins
Jack Amberson
Erskine Sanford
Roger Bronson
Richard Bennett
Major Amberson
Orson Welles
Narrator (voice)
Edwin August
Citizen (uncredited)
Georgia Backus
Matron (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
Citizen (uncredited)
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