Filming in Naples “The lying life of adults”, starring the newcomer Giordana Marengo, the director is Edoardo De Angelis: “A teenager in the 90s between double lives and betrayal by her parents, and the loss of growth”
The Ferrante world adds another piece to the puzzle on the face of the author, which remains unknown, but the writer’s identity bounces from film to film. Now it is a six-episode series aired by the end of the year on Netflix. It shoots in Naples «The lying life of adults “
, based on the novel of the same name. It is the story of a teenager who in the nineties, through a trip to her city, discovers the hidden side of herself»Says the director Edoardo De Angelis. Giovanna (the twenty-year-old newcomer Giordana Marengo) lives surrounded by books. Andrea (Alessandro Preziosi), a left-wing intellectual active in politics, is one of her father esteemed professor in an important high school; gentle, idolized by Giovanna. Before leaving home, he told his wife (Pina Turco, also a teacher but less exposed) that her daughter is very ugly.
It’s this one uglinesscombined with the evilin the words of the father they find themselves in Aunt Vittoria (Valeria Golino). Ferrante uses the physical connotation like a knife that turns in the belly of the characters. But there isn’t in the film. There is rather “hypocrisy of families, the suppression of real passions in a bourgeois context ”, underlines De Angelis. We discover only apparent happiness, double lives and betrayals with the couple of trusted friends. Here are the themes of the “Ferrante world”:abandonmentit loss of growth, mutual accusations, the past that comes back under the pieces. And no one knows where it is truth and where the lie. “Good becomes evil without you realizing it,” says the father to his daughter.
In the middle there is a bracelet passing from hand to hand, a bracelet talisman that assumes symbolic values and becomes like the ring of Tetralogy of Wagner, instead of bringing love it is there corruption through possession, a gift of bad luck. For De Angelis, the bracelet is «both a symbolic element of good and bad luck, and a aesthetic tinsel. I used the game of mirrorsa central element in Ferrante’s writing, also in the specular reference between what is high and what is low in places and characters ».
But in which mirror do you have to look to find yourself and save yourself? «Research – said Elena Ferrante that it is co-writer as the producer Domenico Procacci recalls – it oscillates between two Naples consanguineous which, however, are feared and hated: the Naples above, which has given itself one fine maskand the one below, pretending immoderate, trivial. Giovanna swings between high and low, now tumbling now climbing, bewildered from the fact that, up or down, the city seems without answer and without escape ».
«My mother – tells the young Giordana Marengo – read the plot and told me that Giovanna it looked like me. At the first meeting the director wore glasses that did not allow me to understand where he was watching. On the set I was excited, I couldn’t speak well, then I melted. Valeria Golino she was super nice to me. ” Giovanna is attracted to magnetic charm from the aunt witchwhich, sincere to the point of exhaustion, hates his parents. On social media this relationship is judged by some as an extension of that between Lenù e Lila from «The brilliant friend“. «I – replies De Angelis – considered it a new and different story, I treated it in respect the wish by the author »For Ilaria Castiglioni of Netflix,« it’s a challenge very high».
February 27, 2022 (change February 27, 2022 | 20:05)
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