Leo the Last (1970)
Leo the Last (1970)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy | UK
DVDRip | MKV | 718 x 548 | AVC @ 1750 Kbps | 103 min | 1.41 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: Spanish (embedded) French (.srt)
Genre: Drama, Comedy | UK
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his father's London town house for rest. With him are social-climber Margaret, to whom he is engaged, and Laszlo, who is planning a counter revolution which will restore Leo to the kingship of the monarchy. Leo is shocked to discover the one exclusive neighborhood has degenerated into a ghetto inhabited mainly by poor blacks on the brink of desperation. His nearest neighbors are the Mardi family and their beautiful daughter, Salambo, who catches his eye as does her boy friend the procurer Roscoe. Using the excuse of watching birds he watches them closely through field glasses with the coolness and detachment of a scientist watching insects under a magnifying glass. When Salambo is forced to become a whore in order to keep her family together, Leo, despite the pleadings of Margaret and Laszlo who has just about finished the steps toward the restoration, does something of which he always though himself incapable.
IMDB 6.3/10 from 371 users
Director: John Boorman
Writer: John Boorman, William Stair, George Tabori (play)
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw, Calvin Lockhart, Glenna Forster-Jones
Rated: R
Runtime: 103 min
JPrince Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the exiled ruler from an unnamed country living on the edge of a London ghetto with his harridan mistress Margaret (Billie Whitelaw). While viewing birds through his telescope, he witnesses the struggles of his black neighbors to survive their harsh urban environment. When Salambo (Glenna Forster Jones) is forced into prostitution by Jasper (Keefe West), the prince decides to take action. He rescues the woman after she is raped and makes her his ward and protectorate. When the royal guards invade the neighborhood, Leo and a makeshift troop of residents repel the advance with fireworks and homemade explosives. The film is based on the George Tabori play "The Prince" and deals with class struggles of the poor against the haughty royals.
~ Dan Pavlides, New York Times
Review:
JOHN BOORMAN'S "Leo the Last" begins as comedy of elegant sensibilities, ends as reasonable imitation of guerrilla theater and touches a few more bases along the way than it needs or has really earned. From "Prufrock" to protest; from individual alienation to community action — its themes sound, and indeed feel, like the material for a study in the dilemma of modern man. And like many such studies, "Leo the Last" indulges in a certain measure of intellectual opportunism.
Leo (Marcello Mastroianni), living in London, the last remnant of some unspecified European aristocracy, watches through a spyglass from behind his windows the tough and vital life of the largely black—slum immediately outside his front door. Much inhibited by his own tendency to inaction and restrained by the attentions of his fiancée (Billie Whitelaw) and a household full of ancien régime servants, advisers and hangers-on, he nevertheless leans toward the slum people, especially toward the Madi family, their neighbors, and their daughter (Glenna Forster Jones).
A series of crises, observed and experienced, finally enable him to break free, to champion the slum people (he discovers with horror that he is their landlord), and to fight with them in a glorious street assault against his own stately mansion.
Involved as it is with the esthetics of commitment, the film's plot remains a liberal's wish-fulfillment fantasy to the end—the wicked patron becoming the good patron, the voyeur becoming the activist without ever really violating the shell of his own impotence. But some fantasies are better than others, and those in "Leo the Last" manage to pick up a lot of life along the way.
Boorman has set his film largely in tones of black, blue and gray—in everything extending from the stock of the local supermarket, to the pigeons overhead (nature's gift to the moviemaker), to the décor of Leo's highly theatrical mansion. Because it proclaims itself theater, the film keeps discovering theatrical and cinematic sources of vitality—especially in the streets, in the dumb-show joys and miseries of the distantly observed Madi family, and in the incredibly elaborate and often shockingly beautiful program of optics that accompanies Leo's secret life as voyeur.
Also accompanying that life is a most engagingly shy and sensitive Marcello Mastroianni, in a performance of great self-effacing intelligence. Everybody around him is good, but the black family across the way, that is not even heard until near the end, is superb. Glenna Forster Jones — skinny, sexy, bright and tough—would by herself be reason for going to any movie. And Boorman seems to excel in sensing where his actors most vividly and subtly meet the characters he has in mind.Boorman, who won aknowledgeable cult following for crime in "Point Blank" (1967) and then lost with allegory in "Hell in the Pacific" (1968), should get some of it back with "Leo the Last."
It is worth remembering that, unfashionably, he prefers big to small subjects, that he is a persistent and sometimes overbearing moralist, and that, together with Peter Suschitzky, the cinematographer, he has developed a visual technique that might be more moving if it were less dazzling. But even where he fails, and sometimes most excitingly where he seems bound to fail, in his newest movie he reveals a taste for profitable risk-taking that is a characteristic of the very best directors.
– ROGER GREENSPUN (New York Times)
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