Penélope Cruz and Isabel Coixet, together again in the adaptation of ‘The days of abandonment’ by Elena Ferrante

2023-09-06 17:50:15

Penélope Cruz and Isabel Coixet will once again work together in The days of abandonment. The actress starred under the orders of the Catalan filmmaker Elegy fifteen years ago and now he will repeat in the adaptation of the homonymous novel by Elena Ferrante. The Oscar-winning interpreter will play Olga, a writer whose life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly decides to end her twenty-year marriage by abandoning her without giving explanations or saying goodbye to her two daughters.

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The news has been advanced by Variety and confirmed by elDiario.es. The film will be shot in English and will transfer the action that took place in the book in Italy to the United States. Its script has been written by the French Laurence Coriat, a regular collaborator of Michael Winterbottom (Wonderland, Génova, Everyday).

Elegy, the previous collaboration between Cruz and Coixet premiered in 2008 and was based on the novel by Philip Roth the dying animal (2001). The drama told the story of a charismatic teacher (Ben Kingsley), who proudly set out to seduce his students eager to try new experiences but never let a woman get too close to him.

The latest work by the Madrid actress, Ferrari, It has just been presented at the Venice Festival, to which the interpreter has not attended for personal reasons. This is the biopic directed by Michael Mann of Enzo Ferrari, in whose skin Adam Driver has gotten. Coixet, for his part, is pending the coming-out of One Lovethe adaptation of the novel by Sara Mesa with Laia Costa, with which it will compete in the Official Section of the next San Sebastian Festival.

the days of abandonment will join the list of screen adaptations of Ferrante’s work. In fact, it will be the second time that it has been made into a movie, after the version that the Italian Roberto Faenza filmed in 2005 set in Turin and directed by Margherita Buy. annoying love, his literary debut, was the first to be transferred by the hand of Mario Martone. But the two most popular are still those of the the dark daughter, Maggie Gyllehaal’s debut feature with Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley; and the wonderful friend, in series form (available on HBO Max).

The most recent is The lying life of adultswhich was also brought to the small screen produced by Netflix and with Valeria Golino and Veronica Powers in the main roles.