The Life Ahead

The Life Ahead
The Life Ahead
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Directed by	Edoardo Ponti
Screenplay by	Edoardo Ponti; Ugo Chiti;
Based on	The Life Before Us; by Romain Gary; Madame Rosa; by Moshé Mizrahi;
Produced by	Carlo Degli Esposti; Nicola Serra; Regina K. Scully; Jamie Wolf;
Starring	Sophia Loren; Ibrahim Gueye;
Cinematography	Angus Hudson
Edited by	Jacopo Quadri
Music by	Gabriel Yared
Production; companies	Palomar; Impact Partners; Artemis Rising; Another Chance Productions; Foothills Productions;
Distributed by	Netflix
Release dates	November 6, 2020 (United States); November 13, 2020 (Italy);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Life Ahead (Italian: La vita davanti a sé) is a 2020 Italian drama film directed by Edoardo Ponti, from a screenplay by Ponti and Ugo Chiti. It is the third screen adaptation of the 1975 novel The Life Before Us by Romain Gary. It stars Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye and Abril Zamora, and is set in Bari, Italy.

The film was preceded by Madame Rosa, a 1977 film based on the Gary novel, directed by Moshé Mizrahi and featuring Simone Signoret. Like the book, the first film version is set in Paris.^[1]

The Life Ahead was given a limited release on November 6, 2020, followed by digital streaming on Netflix on November 13.

^ Zacharek, Stephanie (November 13, 2020). "The Life Ahead Brings Sofia Loren Back to the Screen in a Tearjerker That Fully Earns Its Tears". Time. Retrieved November 24, 2020.

[1] Zacharek, Stephanie (November 13, 2020). "The Life Ahead Brings Sofia Loren Back to the Screen in a Tearjerker That Fully Earns Its Tears". Time. Retrieved November 24, 2020.

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