ADAPTING ELENA FERRANTE: Exploring screen versions of the novels
Regular Russ Kilbourn and today's guest Roberta Cauchi-Santoro have just edited a collection of essays on screen adaptations of the novels of internationally successful Italian novelist Elena Ferrante. In this episode Roberta introduces us to Ferrante and her fiction then we discuss those adaptations, including the 34-part Sky series 'My Brilliant Friend' (2018-24) and the 6-part Netflix series ' The Lying Life of Adults' (2023). Three film adaptations are discussed, Troubling Love (1992), Days of Abandonment (2005) and The Lost Daughter (2021). We explore her insistence on anonymity, key…
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