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=90. The Leopard

Episode Summary

Meow. It's The Leopard! Get ready for another ball, it won't be the last. Charlie and Antonio watch Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian epic; can they handle all this opulence?

Episode Notes

Meow. It's The Leopard! Get ready for another ball, it won't be the last. Charlie and Antonio watch Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian epic; can they handle all this opulence?

Intro/outro music: Excerpt from 'The Tree of Life' by Alexandre Desplat.

THE LEOPARD (1963), Italy and France, written by Luchino Visconti, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Suso Cecchi d'Amici, Pasquale Festa Campanile, and René Barjavel, directed by Luchino Visconti, cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno, featuring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale.