Lawrence of Arabia Critic Reviews
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Based upon 7 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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For the most part, Nino Rota's music provides a rich melodic surrounding for the pictorial magnificence, and a heretofore unknown Verdi waltz that is played at the ball at the finish appropriately supplements this remarkably vivid, panoramic, and eventually morbid show. (Review of Original Release)Read the full review
Watching this masterwork allows you to return to the filmmaking sensibility of the 1960s, when epics looked like epics.Read the full review
One of the greatest of all epics.Read the full review
The film is a glittering triumph of personal expression at its most elegant and opulent.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Virtually every Super Technirama frame of Luchino Visconti's 1963 masterpiece The Leopard could be described as "painterly" in its ornate details and exquisitely balanced color compositions. (Review of DVD Release)Read the full review
Italy's top bestseller of recent literary history, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard comes to the screen in a magnificent film, munificently outfitted and splendidly acted by a large cast dominated by Burt Lancaster. (Review of Original Release)Read the full review
