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02/09/06
The Leopard (1963)
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Reviews Counted: 24 Fresh: 24 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 7 mins
Synopsis: Italian director Luchino Visconti delivers one of his most ambitious works with this sprawling historical drama. Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, THE LEOPARD is set in Sicily during the 1800s, as the aristocracy found itself being suffocated by a newly... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
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05/24/03
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A masterpiece in the truest sense of the word, The Leopard is the kind of magisterial filmmaking that Visconti's more famous Death in Venice could only ever dream of being.
05/24/03
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There have been plenty of movies about the conflict of the old and the new, but none seem to contain the whole world in their scope the way that The Leopard does.
01/06/08
Vividly shot, beautifully acted, and paced slowly, deliberately, gathering a kind of power that only a true master can conjure
08/27/06
Exquisite from first frame to last, Visconti's masterpiece captures like no other film the melancholy mood of the end of an era, focusing on one aristocratic Italian clan, with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon at their most appealing
07/25/06
Stately, elegiac, ruminative, the film truly does now feel seamlessly all of a piece -- and looks glorious.
05/05/05
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Watching it now, a more than 40-year-old evocation of an era now some 150 years in the past, we can still feel his ache from here.
02/10/05
Smart and sumptuous, although less nuanced and atmospheric than the brilliant Giuseppe Di Lampedusa novel it's based on.
01/13/05
One of the greatest motion pictures of all time, as well as one of the most politically profound.
01/13/05
Lancaster [comes] through majestically, bringing formidable presence and melancholy to the role of a still-virile great man who sees the writing on the wall.
09/16/04
The feeling at the end of this masterpiece -- a profound meditation on mortality, really -- is so pitch-perfect and conveys so many complexities at a very simple level that The Leopard has become one of the greatest of all epics.
09/10/04
The greatest film of its kind made since World War II -- its only rivals are Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Visconti's own Senso.
08/10/04
[The film] was too subtle for mass audiences in the early 1960s and too expensive to earn back its investment from the art house circuit, but over time it has become recognized as a classic and perhaps Visconti's finest film.
07/29/04
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