THENVENTING ANNA
Type: Dramatic
By Shonda Rhimes. With Julia Garner, Anna Chlumsky, Arian Moayed, Katie Lowes, Alexis Floyd, Laverne Cox. On Netflix
There is the glamorous world of New York; there is the enigma that is painted yellow, in a kind of continuous run-up between justice and fraud; there is above all the great and recognizable talent of Shonda Rhimes.
After Grey’s Anatomy, The rules of the perfect crime, Bridgertonthe most influential of US showrunners packs with Inventing Anna a product destined to remain in the imagination.
The Netflix series, in nine episodes (curiously very long for a streaming platform), tells the story of the fake German heiress Anna Delveyborn the Russian Anna Sorokin (played by Julia Garner).
Julia Garner and Katie Lowes in “Inventing Anna” (photo by Nicole Rivelli / Netflix).
Inspired by the investigation carried out by Jessica Pressler for the New York Magazine, Shonda puts together a narrative that pits the scammer and the young reporter Vivian Kent up against each other. As in a game of mirrors, the protagonists-antagonists find themselves sharing a conflictual and complicit, funny and mysterious bond.
Julia Garner in “Inventing Anna” (photo by Aaron Epstein / Netflix).
There fast-paced writing and brilliant direction (the use of split screens and other graphic expedients is extremely successful and functional) make the product enjoyable, in the style of Shonda and her production company Shondaland: investigating the female universe in its own way.
For those who love the Shondaland universe and the stories in which glamor and ambiguity intertwine.
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