As part of the series Devil in the Garden: The Films of Luchino Visconti, Austin Film Society will present The Leopard. The film shows us such a man in a film so extravagantly shot that the profound sadness buried beneath the haughty exterior of aging aristocrat Prince Don Fabrizio (Burt Lancaster) can easily be overlooked. However, the film itself cannot and its onslaught of dazzling images, running the gamut from astonishingly elegant balls to bloody battles amidst the backdrop of war-torn Sicily, begs to be seen in a theatre.
As part of the series Devil in the Garden: The Films of Luchino Visconti, Austin Film Society will present The Leopard. The film shows us such a man in a film so extravagantly shot that the profound sadness buried beneath the haughty exterior of aging aristocrat Prince Don Fabrizio (Burt Lancaster) can easily be overlooked. However, the film itself cannot and its onslaught of dazzling images, running the gamut from astonishingly elegant balls to bloody battles amidst the backdrop of war-torn Sicily, begs to be seen in a theatre.
As part of the series Devil in the Garden: The Films of Luchino Visconti, Austin Film Society will present The Leopard. The film shows us such a man in a film so extravagantly shot that the profound sadness buried beneath the haughty exterior of aging aristocrat Prince Don Fabrizio (Burt Lancaster) can easily be overlooked. However, the film itself cannot and its onslaught of dazzling images, running the gamut from astonishingly elegant balls to bloody battles amidst the backdrop of war-torn Sicily, begs to be seen in a theatre.