Today, I finally watched the film that is hailed is [one of] the greatest films of all time. And who am I to argue with that? The techniques used to film Citizen Kane were new back then, so I've heard. The angles, lighting, montages, narrative structure (interviews followed by long flashbacks that make up the film) are excellent, though shouldn't be done too much in filmmaking otherwise a film would be remembered more for how a story is told rather than the story itself.
I was slightly mistified by the final revelation but overall a great piece of filmmaking. And THAT performance by Orson Welles! I knew very little of him before seeing this.
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