![]() ![]() ![]() Harrumphs the older woman, “She studied so much her brain’s gone. The characters are so well developed and almost haunting. This information about My Brilliant Friend was first featured in 'The BookBrowse Review' - BookBrowses membership magazine, and in our weekly 'Publishing This Week' newsletter.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. When Lenu announces that she and Pietro are forgoing a church wedding, Immacolata interprets their tweedy anti-papal protest as her daughter’s childish naivete about how men cheat women out of their wifely standing by refusing the marriage’s consecration. In an age when everyone is making super hero and action movies, this is so refreshing and brilliant. While her father (Luca Gallone) parades her around town like a minor celebrity, her mother, Immacolata (Anna Rita Vitolo) - in an achingly familiar dynamic - whiplashes between pride and disdain (though mostly disdain) over an eldest daughter whose academic instruction, for which the family sacrificed so much, has made her a disapproving outsider. ![]() But until then, Lenu’s stuck back at home with her parents. 'My Brilliant Friend' has returned for a second season more affecting, in an alarming way, than the first, though in every way just as impressive in its penetrating portraiture of Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila (Gaia Girace), the friends at the center of this tale set in 1950s Naples, based on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels. Set in the ’70s, Season 3 opens with Lila working herself to the bone at a meat processing plant to provide for her young son after fleeing her abusive husband, and Lenu trying to enjoy the fruits of her literary success and looking forward to the day she’ll marry her soon-to-be-professor boyfriend Pietro (Matteo Cecchi), after which she can move away from her family to Florence. ![]()
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