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...detailing of inner Mafla workings is vivid and accurate, as is--more importantly-- the Corleone family chronicle. This comes less from plot incident than from the perfect characterizations of Brando's Godfather, and At Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall as his natural and adopted sons. Francis Ford Coppola has directed with a line enough eye to make all the connections between them apparent: Gordon Willis's septa-tinged photography and Nino Rota's robust music help sustain the varying moods of his emotional Italians...
...GODFATHER. Not only a phenomenon but a fine film, wonderfully directed by Francis Ford Coppola and flawlessly performed by the entire family...
Godfather. The best thing around, and one of the best in a long time. Francis Ford Coppola's film doesn't really come clean on the roots and important effects of the Mafia, but its view of upper-level machinations is true enough, and its family saga moving. And the final statement--that the corporate Mafia, like corporate America, is hell--is hard to fault. Impeccably cast and acted...
...doesn't really come clean on the Mafia, ignoring the roots and outside effects of Cosa Nostra, but it doesn't prettify the goings-on either. Otherwise, a moving, terrifying Italian-American family chronicle, with brilliant acting by Pacino, Brando, Duvall. Caan, and first-rate direction by Francis Ford Coppola...
...doesn't really come clean on the Mafia, ignoring the roots and outside effects of Cosa Nostra, but it doesn't prettify the goings-on either. Otherwise, a moving, terrifying Italian-American family chronicle, with brilliant acting by Pacino, Brando, Duvall, Caan, and first-rate direction by Francis Ford Coppola...