Fifteen-year-old Giovanna’s (Giordana Marengo) life begins to unravel the day she hears her father Andrea describe her as “ugly”. No, he calls her one thing worse. In a low voice, he tells her mom, “I’ve already figured it out. She’s beginning to seem like my sister.” Vittoria is the monstrous aunt that the household doesn’t converse to; the sister Andrea has come to viciously hate. She’s a liar and a slut, Giovanna has been advised. And now, Giovanna should meet her. She should verify if she is de facto turning into the ugliness that’s her aunt.
The Mendacity Lifetime of Adults is a coming-of-age story, primarily based on Elena Ferrante’s 2019 novel by the identical title. Set in Naples within the Nineties, it’s a meandering, messy however shifting take a look at girlhood, adolescence and maturity. Over six episodes, Giovanna emerges from the expertise of being an adolescent outsider to change into that multiplicitous factor that’s an grownup, somebody who stands shoulder to shoulder with the deceitful grown-ups she as soon as couldn’t fathom.
From early on in The Mendacity Lifetime of Adults, director Edoardo De Angelis hints at an undercurrent of restlessness within the seemingly cheerful world of Giovanna’s mother and father, Andrea (Alessandro Preziosi) and Nella (Pina Turco), who’re glamorous and Left-leaning; and their mansion-owning shut buddies, Costanza (Raffaella Rea) and Mariano (Biagio Forestieri). But for all of the wine-soaked bonhomie between the {couples}, rigidity brews beneath the exchanged glances and hid sneers. Pregnant pauses take form beneath the steerage of Giovanni Guardi’s almost-constant background rating.
