![]() ![]() ![]() If the Netflix version lacks some of the emotional complexity of the book - and even at six episodes, it is a streamlined telling - it is certainly no insult to the text, whose arc it faithfully replicates and significant scenes it pictures, some brilliantly, if not necessarily in the way you might have pictured them. (One can easily imagine that some studio holds an option on whatever Ferrante is thinking right this second.) Her work - feminist, psychological, sociological, operatic - has the quality of being at once popular and literary, with the sort of vivid characters actors crawl over one another to play. It follows HBO’s lauded and ongoing “ My Brilliant Friend,” based on Ferrante’s “Neapolitan” tetralogy, and three books turned into theatrical features, including last year’s “ The Lost Daughter,” directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. “The Lying Life of Adults,” the latest novel by the famously pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante, has been adapted - one might say inevitably - for the screen as a six-part Netflix series. ![]()
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