The beauty and the bleak
Kim Rossi Stuart as Don Fabrizio in The Leopard
photos: Netflix
The Leopard, an Italian adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s great novel, is so beautiful that one could happily turn off the sound and simply wallow in the sun-baked lemon trees, dusty masonry and crinolines of Sicily in the April of 1860.
The drama A Cruel Love, about Ruth Ellis who was hanged in 1955 for killing her lover, couldn’t be further from the Villa Gattopardo. Set in the brittle merriment of sad nightclubs in the small hours, it too is about the minute calibrations of class snobbery.
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