Citizen Kane
“Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.”
MysteryDrama
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
VIBE
A towering, melancholic epic, it feels like sifting through the grand, crumbling remains of a colossal life. Its black-and-white grandeur and non-linear unraveling evoke a profound sense of ambition, power, and the ultimate isolation of a man who had everything but understood little. It's a reflective, enigmatic journey into memory.
melancholicambitiousgrandreflectivetragicenigmaticslow-burnclassic Hollywooddeep focus cinematographynon-linear narrativebiographical epicambitionpowerisolationmemorythe American Dream's hollowness
media tycoonfloridaart collectornewspapercapitalistjournalistsleighbankeramerican dreamfailuremoneyblack and whitetold in flashbacksnowglobeskidsbased on real person
