"You can almost taste the lemons": Making The Leopard, Netflix's love letter to Sicily
It is among Italy’s most treasured novels and was memorably filmed by the revered director Luchino Visconti. You would have to be brave, foolhardy even, to make The Leopard for TV, especially if you’re not Italian.
But that’s exactly what UK producers Moonage Pictures have done with a superlative new version for Netflix of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s masterpiece. What’s more, the sumptuous six-part drama – set in mid-19th-century Sicily as Italy becomes a nation – was shot entirely in Italian.