The pseudonymous novelist Elena Ferrante’s appeal to television producers remains as clear as the Tyrrhenian Sea. Sun-kissed Italian locations; prominent female leads, afforded greater agency than …
’s appeal to television producers remains as clear as the Tyrrhenian Sea. Sun-kissed Italian locations; prominent female leads, afforded greater agency than the Italian media have traditionally afforded their women; material that’s genre-adjacent, but open to more emotion than genre mechanics typically allow. As HBO’s much-lauded ‘My Brilliant Friend’ — three seasons in, headed for a fourth — has demonstrated, Ferrante’s flinty prose excavates not just time and place, but class and attitudes.
For her part, Giovanna’s caught between worlds, whether school-girl innocence and an awareness of adult frailty, or cosy middle-class hypocrisy and the wilder Neapolitan fringes Vittoria embodies. Location manager Raffaele Cortile excels both sides of the tracks, sourcing aspirational apartments, junked construction projects and long-forgotten backstreets, while forever allowing a sightline on the literal and metaphorical horizons offered by the city’s docks.
Eventually, however, “Lying Life” finds its way to a kind of dramatic maturity. Its supremely atmospheric, self-contained penultimate episode unfolds around a Communist Party fair that now seems redolent, not just of another era, but another universe, too.
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