Film Forum

U.S., 1974
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, John Cazale, James Caan, Robert Duvall
Music by Nino Rota
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Dramatic Score, 1975
Approx. 202 min.

Prequel and sequel to the original, as Pacino’s Michael consolidates his empire after dabbling in Cuban futures and vets the family for weaklings, while Oscar®-winner Robert De Niro, as the young Godfather-to-be, takes on the bosses of turn-of-the-20th-century Little Italy.

Reviews

“THE RICHEST NARRATIVE MOVIES HAVE TO OFFER. Francis Ford Coppola took Mario Puzo’s pulp novel and darkened it with Nixonian paranoia and the power of political back rooms.”
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out

“The daring of PART II is that it enlarges the scope and deepens the meaning of the first film. Visually, PART II is far more complexly beautiful than the first, just as it’s thematically richer, more shadowed, fuller.”
– Pauline Kael

“One of the saddest movies ever made, a tale of loss, grief and absolute loneliness, an unflinching stare into the darkest moral abyss.”
– Tom Huddleston, Time Out (London)