THEL Gattopardo Netflix tries to offer new interpretations to the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi of Lampedusa. But even without even trying to compete in grace and beauty with the masterpiece of Luchino Visconti of 1963, the series directed by Tom Shankland, Six episodes available from today in streamingis a lost bet at the start, A ambitious operation succeeded in half.
The gotopardothe plot of the Netflix series
Kingdom of the two Sicilies, 1860. In a night agitated by popular revolts, Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina (Kim Rossi Stuart) challenges the curfew. He must go to resume his daughter Concetta (Benedetta Porcaroli) who lives in Palermo in the convent of the Sacred Redeemer. The thousand of Garibaldi are upon us and the Italian Union threatens to change the habits and ancient laws of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Don Fabrizio’s world is made of a precise routine. Check the accounts every day, the yield of a very fertile and dazzling land. It replies the dense shortcomings, the bandits that steal the lemons and its employees who rob him in turn. While The eldest son Paolo (Alberto Rossi) it is very worried about the possible changes taking place, The Prince of Salina appears more detachedconvinced that nothing will really change.
Things take a different turn When Tancredi (Saul Nanni), the favorite nephew, Son of a deceased sister to whom Don Fabrizio does as a guardian, He reaches Casa Salina and declares his adhesion to the Garibaldi cause. His enthusiasm and rebellious spirit does not save him from being arrested, risking public shooting. The Prince intercede for him with the governor who frees him in exchange for a significant number of lands.
Deva Cassel (Angelica) and Saul Nanni (Tancredi) in “Il Gattopardo”. (Netflix)
The arrival of Tancredi
A break for Don Fabrizio, who must affect a part of the secular family possessions. The presence of Tancredi creates conflicting feelings. On the one hand Paolo cannot conceal the displeasure for the evident preference of the Father towards an antiborbon rebel. On the other Concetta appears dazzled by the cousinwith which a strong feeling seems to be born. Tancredi joins the popular motions, maintaining contacts with the beloved cousin.
The thousand finally land in Marsalaoccupying Sicily. Tancredi returns happy but injured in one eye. Don Fabrizio welcomes him with open arms, together with his official companions from Piedmont. The new political issues also involve the economic interests of the saline. Don Fabrizio is forced to come to terms with the new social class Like his subjected Don Calogero Setara (Francesco Colella).
A new era
A man who, over the years, has put aside great fortunes. The occasion Propizia comes thanks to the meeting of the young Angelica Setara (Deva Cassel), daughter of Don Calogero, and the beloved Tancredi. The beauty of the girl conquers the nephew, with great disappointment and pain of the poor concept.
The wedding of love and above all of interest between Angelica and Tancredi creates a strange alliance that allows the dynasty to maintain power and economic well -being. But progress and new political structures again disappear the ancient world of saline.
Benedetta Porcaroli is concept in “Il Gattopardo” (Netflix)
The gotopardothe review of the series
More than miniseries, The gotopardo Signed Netflix has all the air and substance of a Kolossal. A great expenditure of means – from settings to costumes – which satisfies the eye but He cannot offer any new point of view o original thematic development. No reflection is found which inadvertent is the political and social spirit of the novel, Both the magnificent implications of Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece.
It is not enough to put in the mouth to Don Fabrizio/Rossi Stuart the allusive language that made the fortune of the paper work. The textual reference “These people are where they are, you are where you are, and I’m where I’m where I’m” with which the Prince internships with the Russian helper (Francesco di Leva) is a dead letter in A manufacture of impetus and true understanding of the Risorgimento world. The historical references are left as a suggestive outline of the dramatic affairs. All the social architecture of the novel remains guiltyly unexpressed.
Although the series tries to give a touch of contemporaneity to a complete story, giving more space to contour characters and love relationshipsthe intent falls into the void. The adolescent throes of Concetta, Tancredi and the most conscious Angelica remain suspended in the void, little incisive specks For romantic skirmishes to Bridgengeron.
The script also tried to Store the disparity of treatment between male sons and females. A attempt, although interesting, to modernize and update a story – a classic of cinematography – that has not achieved its purpose.
Kim Rossi Stuart is Don Fabrizio in “Il Gattopardo”. (Netflix)
The cast, from Kim Rossi Stuart to Benedetta Porcaroli, from Deva Cassel to Saul Nanni
A Further basic problem is a heterogeneous cast from experience and interpretation (and for the scarce use of the Sicilian speech). While Kim Rossi Stuart is the fulcrum of the whole storythe character excesses until the brutality of his Don Fabrizio, in the book they had other psychological subtleties.
Around him they orbit a set of characters like small satellites, unable to shine individually. The beautiful Deva Cassel is an Angelico bogglingwhich, however, brings the glamor of high fashion and much less the lively and authentic carnality of an actress like Claudia Cardinale. Benedetta Porcaroli adds to its concept, On paper a ski figure, the only touch of topicality in a lot of missed opportunities.
To be the weakest and most inconsistent is the Tancredi of Saul Nanni. Color, tasteless, it does not have a fifth of the attitude, of the vital seductiveness of Alain Delon. The best characters They are paradoxically two secondary characters. The Don Sedara by Francesco Colella, unscrupulous and hungry for money like the Mazzarò de The stuff by Giovanni Verga and the Russian shrewd (Francesco di Leva).
Deva Cassel is Angelica. (Netflix)
The locations of The gotopardo of Netflix, where he was shot
The undoubted e indomitable Sicilian beauty shines in every sequence of the miniseries. The locations that have been the background and substance to the Gattopardian history include the surroundings of Syracuse and Catania.
The imaginary village of Donnafugata, Buen withdrawal of the saline during the hot summer months, reached along the barren landscape of the Calanche di Cannizzola, was Recreated among the suggestive places of Palma di Montechiaro, Santa Margherita Belice and Ortigia. The interiors of the main residence of the saline are an ensemble of Palermitan palaces as Palazzo Comitini.
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