Word: ragazza
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Magistrate Imposimato appears, singing Una ragazza plagiata (A brainwashed girl...
...histrionic level, The Leopard presents two performances sensitively supervised by Visconti. Cardinale, who in the past has tended less to play than to display, is delectably vulgar and amusingly shrewd as the ragazza whose ways are almost as captivating as her means. And Lancaster, within definite limits, is superb. True, his Salina never quite becomes the figure of "leonine aspect, whose fingers could twist a ducat coin as if it were mere paper." But as the scenes accumulate, the character compiles impressive volume and solidity, and by film's end the grand Sicilian stands in the mind...
...story begins, the pretty ragazza is running away from her bandleader boy friend with a highborn brat who promises to make her a movie star. After five days of fun and games, the young nob suddenly gets bored, takes what the Italians call English leave. Furious, the girl pursues him, finds out where he lives, rings his doorbell. Appalled, the playboy tells his 16-year-old brother (Jacques Perrin) to answer the door and get rid of the dame. But the boy is everything big brother is not: innocent, sensitive, idealistic. He is horrified at his brother's subhumanity...
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