The Leopard (1963)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:24
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9/10
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... [More]
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Reviews for The Leopard
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Involving story with fine Lancaster performance.
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4/4 |
Vividly shot, beautifully acted, and paced slowly, deliberately, gathering a kind of power that only a true master can conjure Full Review |
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5/5 |
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 Full Review |
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5/5 |
Stately, elegiac, ruminative, the film truly does now feel seamlessly all of a piece -- and looks glorious. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A sad, leisurely meditation about the passing of an era. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Smart and sumptuous, although less nuanced and atmospheric than the brilliant Giuseppe Di Lampedusa novel it's based on. Full Review |
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One of the greatest motion pictures of all time, as well as one of the most politically profound. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The Leopard is epic filmmaking at its finest. Full Review |
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4/4 |
One of the greatest of all historical costume epics. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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The greatest film of its kind made since World War II -- its only rivals are Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Visconti's own Senso. Full Review |
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[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. Full Review |
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Just about the final word in period piece opulence. Full Review |
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