Not many people ever see an Amur leopard in the wild. Not surprising, as there are so few of them, but a shame considering how beautiful they are. Thick, luscious, black-ringed coats and a huge furry ...

A bit of promise, therefore, twinkled faintly and tantalizingly out from Netflix‘s new The Leopard, an adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 portrait of Sicilian aristocratic decline.