Dcp! The Leopard (il Gattopardo), 1963, July 15, 2012

Sunday, July 15 – 7:30 PM
DCP! THE LEOPARD (IL GATTOPARDO), 1963, 20th Century Fox, 185 min. Italy celebrated 150 years of unification in 2011 and this film depicts a lot of that history. It is Italy's GONE WITH THE WIND. Adapting Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s literary masterwork, director Luchino Visconti focuses on philosophical, melancholic Prince Salina (Burt Lancaster), a Sicilian nobleman well aware of the inevitability of the violent Garibaldi-led upheavals then occurring in his country. He is determined to see his family survive, in whatever form, and he watches approvingly as his nephew Tancredi (Alain Delon) becomes engaged to the smolderingly beautiful and sweet-natured Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the daughter of a wealthy, wily merchant. “Miraculous and emotionally devastating.” - Roger Ebert. In Italian with English subtitles. [DCP]
Trailer http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/the-leopard

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