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The Lying Life of Adults 2023

2023-01-04

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Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s. A girl in search of her true reflection in a divided Naples: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity.

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The Lying Life of Adults is an Italian- and Neapolitan-language coming-of-age drama television series created by Edoardo De Angelis, based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante. It was released internationally by Netflix on 4 January 2023.

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Author: Elena Ferrante
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The Lying Life of Adults is a 2019 novel by Elena Ferrante. It was adapted into a television series of the same name by Edoardo De Angelis in 2023.


Book Plot

In Naples in the early 1990s, twelve-year-old Giovanna Trada overhears her father Andrea disparagingly liken her appearance to that of his estranged sister Vittoria. This sends Giovanna into a search for Vittoria on another side of Naples to discover the nature of the family's fallout.

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Giordana Marengo

Giovanna

Valeria Golino

Vittoria

Alessandro Preziosi

Andrea

Pina Turco

Nella

Azzurra Mennella

Ida

Rossella Gamba

Angela

Season Information

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Season 1

Air Date: 2023-01-04
Overview:
In 1990s Naples, brash and bold Aunt Vittoria helps her sheltered niece experience a different side of the city, upsetting the teen's strict parents.

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Elena Ferrante

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