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      The Leopard

      PG Now Playing 2h 45m History Drama TRAILER for The Leopard: Trailer 1 List
      98% 49 Reviews Tomatometer 89% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon), to marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout. Read More Read Less Now in Theaters Now Playing Buy Tickets

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      Lavish and wistful, The Leopard features epic battles, sumptuous costumes, and a ballroom waltz that competes for most beautiful sequence committed to film.

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      Steve D Lumbers for about 3 hours too long. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/14/24 Full Review Alec B A lesser movie would have Corbera become a tragic figure simply because an ever changing world no longer finds him or his generation relevant but instead he's granted a kind of clarity about the harsh realities of revolutions (i.e. if society changes too quickly, it will simply stay the same or get worse) that isn't afforded to the other characters. This has the effect of robbing the dying nobility, their brash, young replacements, and the revolutionaries of any sympathy which is an impressive feat on Visconti's part. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/24 Full Review Mariana R obviamente la ví por el concepto de gatopardismo y la crítica a la política y el poder y no para ver italianos uniformados c: dura cómo mil millones de horas que no? Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/28/23 Full Review matthew d A farewell to an era of refinement and sophistication ushering in political corruption. Italian director Luchino Visconti's Italian historical drama epic The Leopard (1963) is a magnificent picture with ambitious scope, playful humor, tender romance, touching drama, fierce combat, grounded acting, and breathtaking music. I'm glad France and Italy could do a neat international production to get The Leopard made thanks to producers Goffredo Lombardo and Pietro Notarianni. It's masterful with sleek cuts from editor Mario Serandrei. Cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno's smooth panning shots glide around antique dinner tables, across revolutionary battlefields, and elaborate ballroom waltz dances with equal grace and steady movement. I loved the natural beauty of Italy's vast mountainside and depth of field shots indoors through doorways that look through massive palaces. Every shot in The Leopard could be considered one of cinema's finest frames. No other film really looks as elegant or visually striking as The Leopard unless you want to compare it to Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon or Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Visconti's film The Leopard feels like a weeping portrait of an Italian prince saying goodbye to his old royal family lifestyle in Italy that went from monarchy into a new age of aristocracy and senators after their revolution. Visconti sets the stage for how Italy could go from a proud nation of free people eventually getting duped into Fascism under Benito Mussolini just decades later. The Leopard is decadent in lush customs and lustful elites, jealous over new lovers or youthful vigor. There is truly no equal to the vast splendor and sincere thoughtfulness to The Leopard's exquisite craftsmanship and pensive atmosphere. Visconti takes us across decades of time through the viewpoint of a prince who feels the weight of old age, new politics, new love, and old egos clashing under a tumultuous Italian regime change. Visconti really was a creative visionary and real Italian auteur. The Leopard is a masterpiece. Writers Luchino Visconti, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli, and Pasquale Festa Campanile's script run through the dog days of Prince of Salina Don Fabrizio Corbera. Their sure written hand demonstrates a knowledge of Italy's violent revolution, skillfully negotiated proposals, high society customs, ballroom etiquette, and a world weary hindsight of the coming pain suffered by the Italian peasants. Their empathetic words capture a mature wisdom and thoughtful reflective perspective I appreciated. Mario Garbuglia's ornate production design recreates old Italian palace stylings with dozens of chairs, tapestries, desks, and tables from set decorators Giorgio Pes and Laudomia Hercolani. I'm sure the actual palaces looked this luxurious and graceful with notable large halls and endless rooms that no one could ever truly live in comfortably. The Leopard's rich tastes show off how pampered the monarchy was in Italy, while juxtaposing this wealth with the dust covered poor as the prince parades around impoverished city streets. American actor Burt Lancaster is incredible as Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina. His gliding walk, harsh commanding tone, graceful dancing, agonized glances of jealous and aged tiredness all feel realistic. The Leopard may be Burt Lancaster's best acting performance in an iconic career of classics like The Killers, Sweet Smell of Success, and Judgment at Nuremberg. French actor Alain Delon is marvelous as the charming and romantic Prince Tancredi Falconeri. His clear ambitions and passionate romancing are swoon worthy. Delon is handsome and astute as we see Tancredi romance Italian actress Claudia Cardinale's voluptuous and vivacious Angelica Sedara. Delon is very lively and jealous just as Cardinale is playful and lustful as she plays Angelica with inner desires of her own. Paolo Stoppa is funny as the foolishly big mouthed and hopelessly inelegant Don Calogero Sedara. For all his vast wealth, he cannot act normal at a fancy ball. Rina Morelli is fun as the ever praying or complaining Princess Maria Stella of Salina. Romolo Valli's not so pious priest Father Pirrone is full of good humor. Serge Reggiani is hilarious as the organ playing Don Ciccio with his long list of insults to everyone in town. Leslie French is fantastic as the nervous and principled Cavalier Chevalley, who begs Lancaster's Prince Fabrizio to consider running for Senator of Salina for the sake of his long suffering peasants. Lucilla Morlacchi is stunning and sympathetic as the Prince's daughter Concetta Corbera, who is hopelessly in love with Delon's likable Tancredi Falconeri. Composer Nino Rota's magnificent film score features a romantic and sweeping symphonic surge. His lovely music is genuinely amazing and one of cinema's great film scores. Sound designer Mario Messina lets battle cries and ballroom waltz numbers sound loud and clearly. The Italian dubbing does not sound bad or overdone either as I watched the Italian original version of The Leopard with English subtitles to try and get an authentic watch. Piero Tosi's tailored suits and plethora of ballgowns are gorgeous and colorful. Alberto De Rossi's make-up transforms Burt Lancaster's recognizable face into Prince Fabrizio Salinas. In the end, The Leopard never dragged in its massive 186 mins run-time because of Luchino Visconti's stalwart direction and Burt Lancaster's captivating lead acting. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review dude d i would not normally watch this kind of movie, but sometimes a film or work of art just mesmerises me. This film does so through cinematography, landscape, set and costume.... i didnt realise caravaggio did movies. It is jaw droppingly stunning. Each frame is beautiful, and then it pans! And it comes to rest again, and it is beautiful all over again. This is enough in itself, so the plot is irrelevant. But then i realised that the sumptious imagery was actually a deep part of the main character and his life. How could anyone readjust to the loss of such privilege and history? I almost felt sorry for that loss.... until you realise that beauty seduces completely. And then we can laugh at the ludicrous dancing. Human beings! what are we like? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/05/21 Full Review william d Visconti's direction is flawless. The battle and ballroom scenes are terrific. For those reasons I recommend the movie. I just wish the story dwelt more on the historical events rather than the romantic entanglements. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Pauline Kael New Yorker Here is a work of a type we rarely see anymore -- a sweeping popular epic, with obvious similarities to Gone with the Wind. Sep 11, 2023 Full Review Scott Tobias AV Club The film aches with regret over a crumbling empire, but its feelings are complicated by the wise prince, who recognizes his place on the wrong side of history. Dec 11, 2013 Full Review Variety Staff Variety A magnificent film, munificently outfitted and splendidly acted by a large cast dominated by Burt Lancaster's standout stint in the title role. Feb 23, 2012 Full Review Penelope Gilliatt Observer (UK) It gives you an extraordinary sense of the texture of a grand family's life in Sicily during the Risorgirnemo. Visconti accumulates details like a Russian novelist. Mar 6, 2024 Full Review Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site Visconti's epic is a work of astonishing proportions. The breadth and depth of his treatment of the subject matter is on a scale almost unimaginable in recent cinema. Mar 1, 2021 Full Review Dwight MacDonald Esquire Magazine To transpose a book into a movie means to destroy the form of the original in order to re-create the effect in another medium... Visconti has preserved the form without apparently suspecting it had any meaning. Aug 13, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon), to marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
      Director
      Luchino Visconti
      Producer
      Pietro Notarianni
      Screenwriter
      Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Luchino Visconti
      Distributor
      20th Century Fox
      Production Co
      Titanus
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      History, Drama
      Original Language
      Italian
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 15, 1963, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 1, 2013
      Runtime
      2h 45m
      Sound Mix
      Mono
      Aspect Ratio
      35mm
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