
The meandering and sometimes dreamy adaptation barely has enough plot and scale for a feature, yet its looseness allows for digressions that are sometimes provocative and just as frequently attractive wallpaper. There’s a sense at the moment that if you give an Elena Ferrante novel the proper space, you’ll get a nuanced exploration of female identity - more specifically the societal construction of female identity, with its attendant expectations and responsibilities - with underpinnings of Italian history, culture and geography that are as layered as the knowledge and interest you bring to it.Įdoardo De Angelis’ take on Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adultsoffers a third format, this one a six-episode Netflix limited series, and it may be the least precisely tailored. 'Stranger Things' Final Season Production Delayed by Labor Unrest
