Review of Citizen Kane Citizen Kane was written and directed by Orson Welles. This classic masterpiece was completed in the 1940’s. It uses film as an art form to energetically communicate and display a non-static view of life - its components include unconventional lighting, inventive use of shadows, deep-focus shots from extreme foreground to extreme background, low-angle shots revealing ceilings, sparse use of close-ups, and the frequent use of transitionary dissolves and long, uninterrupted sequence shots. The movie’s theme is told from several perspectives by several different characters, is the thought-provoking, tragic story of how a millionaire newspaperman, who ide