Netflix Unveils New Italian Originals as Elena Ferrante Series Begins Shoot With Valeria Golino in Cast

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Netflix is moving forward with its Elena Ferrante series adaptation, “The Lying Life of Adults,” which will start shooting in Naples in October with Neapolitan helmer Edoardo De Angelis (“Indivisib…

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“Lying Life of Adults” leads a slate of Netflix Italian original series projects — several of which are literary adaptations — that were announced in Rome on Thursday by

The Ferrante book depicts Giovanna’s transition from childhood to adolescence during the 1990s in a Naples that is actually two kindred cities that fear and loathe one another: the upper crust Naples of the high-quarters, where a mask of refinement is worn, and the Naples of its more vulgar and exciting low quarters where her intriguing aunt Vittoria lives.

Andreatta also underlined that De Angelis, who made an international splash in 2016 with “Invisible,” a drama about Neapolitan teenage conjoined twin sisters, is putting his distinctively dreamy but grotesque stamp on the six-episode “Lying Life of Adults” which De Angelis co-wrote with Laura Paolucci and Francesco Piccolo — both scribes on “Brilliant Friend” — as well as Ferrante herself.

“What we want to do is narrate an Italy outside of stereotypes,” she said, noting that “we have a responsibility to understand and depict what’s different” and to “really recount who we [Italians] are and what our country is in its complexity and richness; its beauty but also the dark aspects.”

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