Peter Watkins - La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
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At 67, Peter Watkins remains a restless radical, creating films that
spectacularly defy narrative conventions, entrenched ideologies and,
it must be said, the patience of his viewers.
With a running time of 5 hours 45 minutes, Mr. Watkins's most recent
film, ''La Commune (Paris, 1871),'' is far from his longest work, but
in many ways it is his most ambitious. (The longest, ''The Journey,'' a
1987 survey of the nuclear arms race, was 12 hours.)
Centered on the story of the Paris Commune, the working-class
insurgency that briefly ruled the French capital in 1871, Mr. Watkins's
film is at
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