Netflix Drops Teaser Trailer For Elena Ferrante Adaptation

Netflix has launched the teaser trailer for “The Mendacity Lifetime of Adults,” a six-episode adaptation of the eponymous novel by Elena Ferrante which is able to drop globally on the streamer on Jan. 4, 2023.

“Mendacity Life,” which is directed by Neapolitan helmer Edoardo De Angelis (“Indivisible”), stars Valeria Golino within the position of the crass and enigmatic Neapolitan aunt of the story’s younger protagonist, named Giovanna, performed by newcomer Giordana Marengo.

The Ferrante ebook depicts Giovanna’s transition from childhood to adolescence in the course of the Nineteen Nineties in a Naples that’s really two kindred cities that concern and detest each other: the higher crust Naples of the high-quarters, the place a masks of refinement is worn, and the Naples of its extra vulgar and thrilling low quarters the place her intriguing aunt Vittoria lives.

Giovanna vacillates between these two sides of town, neither one providing solutions or escape.

Alessandro Preziosi (“Medici”) performs Giovanna’s father, Andrea, whereas Pina Turco (“Gomorrah”) performs her mom, Nella.

Talking about “Mendacity Life” at a Netflix slate presentation earlier this 12 months, the streamer’s VP of Italian unique collection Eleonora Andreatta famous that it has very completely different traits in comparison with “My Good Buddy,” starting with the Nineteen Nineties time interval during which “Mendacity Life” is about.

Andreatta – who was instrumental in shepherding that HBO/RAI Ferrante present when she was head of drama on the public broadcaster – additionally underlined that De Angelis, who made a global splash in 2016 with “Invisible,” a drama about Neapolitan teenage conjoined twin sisters, has put his distinctively dreamy however grotesque stamp on the present.

De Angelis has co-written the present with Laura Paolucci and Francesco Piccolo — each scribes on “My Good Buddy” — in addition to Ferrante herself. The brand new Ferrante adaptation is being produced for Netflix by Domenico Procacci’s Fandango.