Netflix’s ‘The Leopard’ Is Italy’s ‘Gone With The Wind’—Without The Racist Baggage

Netflix’s ‘The Leopard’ Is Italy’s ‘Gone With The Wind’—Without The Racist Baggage

To talk about Gone With The Wind in a responsible way, without going writing an entire dissertation, I’m going to lean on the crutch of analogy and say it’s like that one piece in a box of assorted chocolates you bite into and spit out once you taste what’s on the inside. Its popularity and critical acclaim are the fancy box and individual paper wrapper, misleading qualifiers that denote delicacy and luxury. As a teenager drawn to “classic” film…