La vita bugiarda degli adulti

2023 - 2023

Beauty

4th January 2023

Episode 1

After Giovanna overhears her father’s comment comparing her to his estranged sister, the teen travels to a rough part of Naples to meet her aunt.

Resemblance

4th January 2023

Episode 2

Giovanna accompanies Vittoria to Enzo’s grave and learns about their family’s falling out. A conversation about passion awakens something in Giovanna.

Bitterness

4th January 2023

Episode 3

Giovanna’s friends clash with Vittoria on a visit to the slums. The bracelet Vittoria gifted Giovanna as a baby turns up in an unexpected place.

Loneliness

4th January 2023

Episode 4

A secret gets out and unravels two families. Giovanna fails out of school and has her first sexual encounter. Vittoria demands her bracelet back.

Love

4th January 2023

Episode 5

Giovanna’s interest in a charming young religious scholar rankles her worldly father. It also irritates Vittoria, who is wary of the teen's intentions.

Truth

4th January 2023

Episode 6

On a trip to Milan to visit Roberto, Giovanna wrestles with wanting to be seen as the scholar’s equal or something else.

Top Cast

Giordana Marengo•Valeria Golino•Alessandro Preziosi

Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s. A girl in search of her true reflection in a divided Naples: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity.

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Giordana Marengo Image

Giordana Marengo

Giovanna

Valeria Golino Image

Valeria Golino

Vittoria

Alessandro Preziosi Image

Alessandro Preziosi

Andrea

Pina Turco Image

Pina Turco

Nella

Raffaella Rea Image

Raffaella Rea

Costanza

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Biagio Forestieri

Mariano

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Elena Ferrante

Novel

Vicenzo Filippo

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