The Taviani brothers' homage to D.W. Griffith, in the story of two immigrant siblings who come to Hollywood to find work on the set (quite literally on the sets) of his Intolerance. The re-creation of the embryonic film industry is lovingly, and wonderingly, done, but the effect is a little dissipated when the movie returns to Europe -- for the Great War -- in quest of its own epicality. Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Omero Antonutti, Charles Dance. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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