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