Marthe Keller, KiKi Layne, Mia Goth and Alba Rohrwacher play peripheral characters, and Kyle MacLachlan appears in multiple roles. Julianne Moore stars as an Italian-American writer named Francesca who returns to her childhood home in Rome to pick up her aging mother, a painter. screenwriter Michael Mitnick “tailored a story that took its cue from Pierpaolo Piccioli’s idea of the stories that these dresses told, both emotionally and narratively.” Guadagnino’s short, “Staggering Girl,” fuses the aesthetics of film and haute couture and has a multi-layered plot centering on dresses and their owners.
The eight-episode show will be an HBO and Sky original series and is being produced by Wildside, with international sales handled by Fremantle.
