Cutesy and pointless, there's little to recommend about this ponderous film besides the Ennio Morricone score and Clarence Williams III's performance as Jelly Roll Morton (expect that he's trapped in a dueling-pianos sequence that just seems to go on forever).
Tim Roth tries valiantly, but his performance is hampered by the fact that he has no character to play; his "1900" is more a labored metaphor than a human being, and there's little this talented actor can do with the weak script (which occasionally has painful bouts of English-as-a-second-language-itis.
But hey, I didn't like "Cinema Paradiso" either, so what do I know...
Tim Roth tries valiantly, but his performance is hampered by the fact that he has no character to play; his "1900" is more a labored metaphor than a human being, and there's little this talented actor can do with the weak script (which occasionally has painful bouts of English-as-a-second-language-itis.
But hey, I didn't like "Cinema Paradiso" either, so what do I know...