THR, which first reported the news. Ferrante is the author of “My Brilliant Friend” and “The Lost Daughter,” which is also being adapted into a feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Dakota Johnson, Olivia Colman and Peter Sarsgaard. “The Days of Abandonment” is a 2002 novel that was republished in English in 2005, and Portman was meant to play Tess, a woman who abandoned her own dreams for a stable home life and is in turn abandoned by her husband, throwing her world off its axis.
It was described as a visceral, no-holds-barred journey into the mind of a woman in crisis that confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity.Betts is the writer and director of the 2017 film “Novitiate” starring Melissa Leo.THR first.
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