THE LEOPARD (Il Gattopardo) (1963) - ♦♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Luchino Visconti

Written by - Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Luchino Visconti (based on a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)

Starring - Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon

"Certainly one of the most important works of a defining era in Italian cinema, known as the second Italian Resnaissance, this Visconti work stands tall as a wonderful example of that Italian unsurpassed school of cinematography and photography with its most involving story filled based on a famous novel by Tomasi di Lampedusa by the same name, about the fall of aristocracy and the beginning of real change taking place in the 1800s with revolts of workers and their effects on an ageing and somewhat sympathetic prince in Sicily. Burt Lancaster, though dubbed, still delivers one of his most memorable performances, along with the great cast. The art direction is a thing of beauty, a feast for the eye, and it is all carefully balanced with sheer class, elegance and grace."

Period Drama, Italy/France