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Leopard / Il Gattopardo
(PG)
© Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema - all rights reserved
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7 /10
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8.85 /10
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Starring |
Burt Lancaster (HARVARD LAMPOON AWARD - WORST ACTOR OF THE YEAR), Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon |
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Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Written by: Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa from Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa's novel
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Released: |
1963 |
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Genre: |
DRAMA
FOREIGN
COSTUME
EPIC
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Italy/ France/ USA |
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Length: |
205 |
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An Italian aristocrat (Burt Lancaster) can't cope with the rise of the bourgeoisie in the 1860s.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Visconti's sumptuous 19th century epic wonderfully evokes the time of Garibaldi, and the emotions of being part of a declining aristocracy. Lancaster, though not well dubbed, gives a memorable character portrait (based, so he said, on Visconti himself). The set-pieces - whether battles, dinners or balls - are all magnificently photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. Nino Rota's score is one of his best. Avoid the badly dubbed 165-minute version, which also suffers from poor colour.
Winner of the Golden Palm as Best Film at Cannes, it also received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design.
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