I grade this “incomplete.” I have no idea what I thought about this movie because I barely saw any of it. I very rarely leave a movie in the middle, but I did it this time, not because I hated it — but because I felt it was the only polite thing to do for the people around me at the (very crowded) Film Forum screening. I kept falling asleep. And snoring. Loudly. I could hear myself snore through my sleep. Now. . .this movie seemed very good. Looked beautiful and had Alain Delon in an eyepatch. But I’d just come in from the cold, it was high naptime (4:30 pm) plus I’d just come from a get-together where I’d downed two Guinness in quick succession. As soon as the lights dimmed, I was out. I’d wake up periodically (when the audience would laugh or something would explode on the soundtrack) and I’d find myself kinda lost in the plot. The plot, by the way, a “Gone With The Wind”-like story set amongs Garibaldi’s unification revolution in Italy woulda required close attention on my part anyway; I don’t know too much about that time in history. When I finally collected myself and realized that I was 90 minutes into the film, didn’t know what the hell was going on, and had 90 minutes remaining, I split. Too bad, because J. Hoberman calls this the best movie of its kind since WWII.