FILM IN FOCUS: Citizen Kane

FILM IN FOCUS: Citizen Kane


Towards the conclusion of Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), Kane and his wife, Susan Alexander, have isolated themselves in the palatial Xanadu, surrounded by magnificent spaces and cut off from the world.



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