What a GORGEOUS film. Shot after shot of visual ecstasy. Shouts out to Burt Lancaster, because even when he doesn't have his voice he is a damn good actor. I really never knew exactly what was happening in the film but it's just so nice. The ballroom sequence is impressive. Shouts out to Claudia Cardinale for being unbelievably gorgeous.

Yo dis movie tight

It doesn't grab you by the shoulders and shake, but you could not have pulled me away from this film.

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Very nuanced storytelling here, but rewarding. One thing I enjoyed was the subtle transition of Delon's character Tancredi from idealistic youth into a man bound by tradition like his uncle -- I have to wonder if this movie influenced The Godfather. Lancaster really won me over on this one -- by all means his character should be unlikable, but I really sympathized with his inevitable obsolescence by the end of the film. Also, old-time Italy is very photogenic and the cinematography is beautiful.

The look and feel of this movie was great. I just didn't become engaged with the story, which led to my loss of interest and my eventual losing of the plot, and it's hard to like a 3 hour movie when I'm not sure what's going on. This is one I definitely need to watch again

Prince Don Fabrizzio is such a solemn and yet watchable character (thanks in no small part to Lancaster's performance); by the end, we feel his every emotion, deeply and profoundly. The film is obviously lush and gorgeous at every second, but it's so incredibly dense that it's hard to process at times. Because of its length and density, audience interest will inevitably wane, but when it hits, it hits hard and with immense beauty.

9 de Juliol 2011 - Retrat històric del final de l'antic règim. Probablement força acurat. Té menys mèrit interpretar una (gran) novel·la que idear un guió? És una interpretació? Una recreació? Una visió subjectiva o una fidel transcripció visual? Ha de repercutir en la meva puntuació la distància temporal, el fet que hagin variat algunes concepcions cinematogràfiques en 50 anys?

Absolute classic. To call it the "Italian _Gone With The Wind_" is actually a demotion for this unique film

Elaborate, complex family saga, painted like an old master with great care and attention to detail

aka: the fall of the house of falconeri... favorite scenes: tancredi and angelica playing hide and go seek...fabrizio and chevally discussing a possible senatorship....the hour long ball.....the statuelike review of the princes' family at the local mass. favorite line: something had to change on order for everything to remain the same. loved the little details as well as the luxuriant scenes..... highly recommended, not to be missed. note: stick with the italiian language ver

Terrific costume period film; terrific novel as well.

DNF

Visually, one of the most opulant, luxurious, colourful, splendiferous, magnificent, delirious, aesthetically grandiose films I've ever seen. I could watch Visonti's camera make love to the Italian countryside for hours. The interiors are not bad either. It tries to be Italy's Gone With The Wind but the story is not quite enough for 3 hours and it drags in the final third. Interesting to see where The Godfather's influences came from. Good performances from Lancaster, Delon but not Cardinale.

"The Leopard is more than a tad too pleased by its own spots, but in this case the source material and its director's intentions were almost accidentally an appropriate match." - Eric Henderson

I hate to say it but, this film was incredibly boring. It definitely didn’t help that it was 3 hours long. I’m not a huge fan of period pieces, but I really struggled to pay attention during this. It felt like either nothing was happening, or I didn’t understand what was happening. Most of the scenes seemed to involve some characters standing around discussing other characters who weren’t there. This got very tedious. I can’t fault the film technically, it was just wildly uninteresting to me.

Three hour long costume dramas aren't exactly my "thing", but The Leopard won me over. It's absolutely gorgeous. The sets, the costumes, the photography -- all perfect. The character of Don Fabrizio is intriguing, and Lancaster's performance is inspired. The sheer length of the movie necessitates patience, and the subtlety necessitates constant attention to minor details. But ultimately, it's very rewarding.

Beautifully shot, but I feel like I'll have to watch the commentary to really get more out of it. A familiarity with Sicilian history is almost certainly a prerequisite.

I've rarely been so uninvolved.

horribly boring and slow. epic movies require long plot lines, this movie doesn't have that it just has long scenes. Lancaster was just there for show, pretty much all of them were overdubbed. Don't bother on this movie.

If not being enthralled by a three hour costume drama about a fading patriarch during the unification of Italy makes me a child, well then give me a pacifier and a blanket because I need a fucking nap after watching this. I get that it's beautifully shot and intelligently written, but there's no reading of this movie that would grab my interest.

I make mine the words of Roger Ebert: "The Leopard was written by the only man who could have written it, directed by the only man who could have directed it, and stars the only man who could have played its title character."

The costumes and sets are incredible, and the camerawork is very impressive. It's not a boring movie, but its narrative is very nuanced and I didn't find it all that gripping.

I am very picky when it comes to epics and long movies, a lot of the time I don't have the patience to sit down and watch from start to finish, but with The Leopard, its different. From the moment I started to watch, I was drawn into Prince Fabrizio's character perfectly portrayed by Burt Lancaster. The way the Leopard is shot is one of a kind. Beautiful imagery followed with fantastic sets and great costumes created an atmosphere like most period films can't compare to.

I almost feel guilty giving this such a low score. There is a lot to be admired here; the sets, costumes, landscapes, photography, but there somehow really isn't much to sink your teeth into.

Cumbersome and stodgy, but worth seeing once.