Claudia Cardinale, star of Italian and French cinema, honoured in Tunisian birthplace | The National

KindredRealms on Instagram: "rip Claudia Cardinale🪽 Did you know Cardinale’s performance in Visconti’s The Leopard helped define the grandeur of Italian cinema’s golden age? Alongside Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster, Cardinale embodied both the fading elegance of Sicily’s aristocracy and the restless energy of a new Italy emerging after unification. Visconti’s sweeping adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel is a meditation on power, beauty, and impermanence—and Cardinale moves throug