“Two years before leaving home, my father said to my mother that I was very ugly.” Giovanna almost spits the opening sentence of The Lying Life of Adults, the Netflix show based on Elena Ferrante’s latest blistering beach read.
The teenage Giovanna has begun to look like her estranged Aunt Vittoria, a spiteful woman who has refused to move past her impoverished upbringing, as Giovanna’s father Andrea, a professor, has done. The willful daughter befriends Vittoria, as much as that’s possible, and discovers the layers of deception that have ravaged the family for generations.
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