Citizen kane

Citizen Kane has long been acclaimed as a work of genius and endlessly dissected by critics. But a mystery still lies at the heart of this masterpiece. On the eve of Orson Welles’s centenary, Peter Bradshaw comes up with his own theory about the film’s clinching moment

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane poster. Private commission. 24x36 inches. 7 colors screen print.

Mise en abyme. Orson Welles. Citizen Kane. 1941

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“Kane’s rosebud is a nostalgic nod of innocence comes across only after everything is dead and gone, in the final shot, how swell, yet why our hearts are stone cold heartbroken?”