11/24/06
The Lepoard : The best thing about viewing this dubbed and trunkated version of Luchino Visconti's 1963 classic, is the opertunity it affords me to recommend the film in its proper Italian version. Based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leporad is a sort of Italin Gone With The Wind, telling the story of a family of the Sicillian aristocracy, and its efforts to weather the changes brought by Garibaldi's revolution of 1860. The film features a strong international cast including Burt Lancaster, and the lovely Claudia Cardinale, my favorite of the many popular Italin beautys of the 1960's (Cardninale, not Lancaster). The ball sequance at the end of the movie is much remarked upon by students of film.
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