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The Legend of 1900

From the first frame to the last, The Legend of 1900 is a film about music, and an extraordinary tale of a irtuoso musician born at sea. With an original score by legendary film composer Ennio Morricone and featuring an original song with lyrics written and performed by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and guitar solos by Edward Van Halen, The Legend of 1900 is one of those classic soundtracks that will leave movie-goers obsessed with the music long after the credits have rolled.

The Legend of 1900 is directed by Academy Award? winner Giuseppe Tornatore, reunited here with Ennio Morricone for the first time since their critically and commercially acclaimed international success, Cinema Paradiso. An extraordinary tale of a virtuoso musician born at sea, The Legend of 1900 tells the story of a boy's journey to manhood -- aboard a luxury ocean liner sailing between Europe and America. Abandoned on the ship as a baby and named for the year in which he was born, "1900" (Tim Roth) grows up within the confines of this transatlantic steamer, a prodigious talent at the piano who spends his days entertaining the world with his music. The film tells the story of his life, with a major focus on the music and musicians that come through his world.

IT SEEMS CERTAIN that an American filmmaker who learned Italian and made a film about Italy inspired mostly by Italian films would create a weird pastiche. It would be neither Italian nor American, simply peculiar. The Legend of 1900, Giuseppe Tornatore's first English-language film, is such a case in reverse: an elephantine fable about American jazz, movies and the solitude of an artist.

It's the story of a foundling, discovered in 1900 aboard the Virginian, an ocean liner. Danny (Bill Nunn), an African-American coal stoker, decides to bring the baby down to the furnaces and raises him there. The waif's benefactor is brained during an accident, and the child grows into a piano player who dazzles the shipboard crowd.

It's the choice of "1900" (Tim Roth), as the musician is named, never to leave the ship. His life exhibits a forced pathos. He's a great piano player who records only once, falls in love with a girl he sees only a few times and loses forever, and never performs for the rest of the landlocked world.

His buddy Max (Pruitt Taylor Vince, from Heavy) is more practical and coarse, the fat Sancho Panza to this thin piano-playing aesthete. Max narrates the end of the story to a sympathetic music-store owner as he tries to pawn his trumpet for the price of a meal.

The only record of the pianist's music is a master recording, and he breaks it in a fit of pique: "My music isn't going anywhere without me." The lost song (by Ennio Morricone, not at his best) sounds like the piano accompaniment for the end credits from Search for Tomorrow, but it's supposed to be the only surviving legacy of a genius.