Kate Beckinsale shows up the premiere of the restored Luchino Visconti classic The Leopard / Il gattopardo, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. The cinematic event was held at the Palais des Festivals during the 63rd Annual International Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2010, in the south of France. (Photo by Venturelli/WireImage.)
The Leopard (1963) also features Paolo Stoppa, Romolo Valli, Pierre Clémenti, Terence Hill, and Giuliano Gemma. Both Delon and Cardinale were in attendance at the premiere.
Adapted by Visconti, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, and Massimo Franciosa, The Leopard is based on Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's classic novel.
Among Luchino Visconti's other film classics are Ossessione, Bellissima (with Anna Magnani), Senso (with Farley Granger and Alida Valli), Rocco and His Brothers (with Delon and Annie Girardot), Sandra, The Damned, Death in Venice, Conversation Piece, Ludwig (with Helmut Berger), and The Innocent.
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