LBY LIDIA POËT’S LAW
Type: legal-period drama
Director: Matthew Oak. With Matilda De Angelis, Eduardo Scarpetta, Sara Lazzaro. On Netflix
“If God wanted you to be a lawyer, He didn’t make you a woman.” Lidia Poët, first Italian to join the Order of Lawyers and then unable to practice due to gender stereotypes from the end of the 19th century, she is the protagonist of a new original Italian series by Netflix.
To interpret it is the charming Matilda De Angelis, which gives body and soul to a story of machismo and attempts at emancipation. The setting is that of 19th century Turin, of a high society that moves between palaces, receptions and theatres.
And the first episode takes its cue from the theater of Angennes; the discovery of the prima ballerina’s body induces the combative Lidia to take the defense of the defendant, a lover of the woman betrothed to a marquis.
But a ruling by the Court of Appeal of Turin declares his enrollment in the Order illegitimate; Lidia finds a job in her brother’s studio (convinced that women shouldn’t take care of certain affairs) and, with the help of an eccentric journalist, manages to solve the case.
Matilda De Angelis in “The law of Lidia Poët”, on Netflix (photo by Lucia Iuorio/Netflix © 2022).
Halfway between legal and period drama, the series presents self-contained episode casesunusual solution for platforms.
To discover forgotten stories of Italian heroines and for those who love serial costume frescoes.
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