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  1. Set primarily in a working-class neighborhood of Naples during the 1950s, My Brilliant Friend chronicles the complex friendship between Elena Greco (called Lenù) and Raffaella Cerullo (known as Lila). The novel opens in 2010 with Elena, now in her sixties, learning of Lila's disappearance.

  2. My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is a Neapolitan - and Italian -language coming-of-age drama television series created by Saverio Costanzo for HBO, RAI, and TIMvision.

  3. This summer, the first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was voted the best book of the 21st Century in a poll by The New York Times, which described it as an "uncompromising,...

  4. Sep 8, 2024 · “My Brilliant Friend” was never a mainstream hit in this country. But it may in a way be the true successor to “The Sopranos.”

    • James Poniewozik
  5. Filmed in Italian, the eight-episode drama centers on elderly author Elena Greco, who learns that the most important friend in her life, Lila Cerullo, has disappeared without a trace.

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    • Saverio Costanzo
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    • Margherita Mazzucco
  6. Nov 14, 2018 · The story of a febrile and rivalrous friendship between two girls in a working-class Italian neighborhood in the 1950s, it is as intimate as “Game of Thrones” is sweeping. The first season ...

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  8. Nov 16, 2018 · My Brilliant Friend, whose first installment airs on HBO on Sunday, presents the story of Lenù and Lila’s girlhood with all the unsparingness of Ferrante’s writing. Saverio Costanzo ...

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