Visconti's The Leopard
I saw this one years ago and I thought it was an overlong and overblown mess.
I just rewatched it and I must have been in the right mood this time because the long ballroom scene at the end left me speechless: the camera movements, the costumes, Burt Lancaster's acting and Claudia Cardinale's beauty...Was there ever a movie scene more fabulous than this one? Why don't they make movies like this one anymore?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | May 11, 2019 6:36 PM
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Visconti was an aristocrat. Are there any aristocrats making movies these days??
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 2, 2015 10:53 PM
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R1 How about Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 2, 2015 11:10 PM
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Well The Tourist was very good looking but it was no The Comfort of Strangers.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 2, 2015 11:14 PM
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Lancaster was a HOT daddy in this! and Delon so beautiful it hurts
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 2, 2015 11:18 PM
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My French friend told me the gossip in Paris was that Claudia had an affair with President Chirac.
Who could blame him?
That dinner party scene where she laughs in that vulgar, loud, sexy way when Delon tells the story of the nun being raped and the camera zooms in on her fast - it's breath-taking, one of my favorite moments in cinema.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 2, 2015 11:46 PM
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Also anyone who enjoys Lancaster's magnificent world weary performance in The Leopard needs to see him in Visconti's The Conversation, where he's in much the same vein as a jaded American professor who falls i love with Helmut Berger (who was then Visconti's lover).
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 2, 2015 11:48 PM
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A movie that must be seen on the big screen. Has anyone read the book? (And yes, the scene of Lancaster at fifty in the bath tub will stay with me forever.)
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 11, 2019 6:36 PM
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