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   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.

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3. www.bbc.com › culture › article'Criminally underrated': Why My Brilliant Friend is one of ...

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   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. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › My_Brilliant_Friend_(TVMy Brilliant Friend (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   TIMvision (Italy, s. 1) 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. Named after the first of four novels in the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante, the series is an adaptation of the entire literary ...

5. www.nytimes.com › 2024/09/08 › artsReview: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Comes to a Brilliant Conclusion

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   Sep 8, 2024 · Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Comes to a Brilliant Conclusion. HBO’s Elena Ferrante adaptation completes one of the best portraits of a lifelong relationship ever made for TV. Listen to this...

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   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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   • Director: Saverio Costanzo

   • Content Rating: TV-MA
   • Actors: Margherita Mazzucco

7. www.nytimes.com › 2018/11/14 › artsReview: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an Intimate Epic - The New ...

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   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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   Is 'My Brilliant Friend' based on a true story?

   • HBO’s new series “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the wildly popular Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante, is a different but no smaller challenge. 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.

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   Who wrote my Brilliant Friend?

   • My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is a 2011 novel by Italian author Elena Ferrante. It is the first of four volumes in Ferrante's critically acclaimed Neapolitan Novels series.

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   Is My Brilliant Friend a good TV series?

   • It has not swept awards shows, and is often missing from round-ups of the best prestige television (it failed to make the cut of BBC Culture's own greatest TV series of the 21st Century poll in 2021). Despite its much-loved source material, the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend hasn't attracted a comparable amount of attention (Credit: HBO)

   'Criminally underrated': Why My Brilliant Friend is one of the ... - BBC

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   What is my Brilliant Friend about?

   • “My Brilliant Friend” is a story about many things—left-wing politics, male violence, fancy shoes, the warping force of patriarchy on female creativity—but it’s centrally about class-jumping, through education, the kind that makes one aware of the origins of social class, including the ways it’s embedded in art.

   The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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   What language is my Brilliant Friend on HBO?

   • My Brilliant Friend was the first foreign-language series to ever premiere on HBO. The show isn't just in Italian – there are large chunks in Neapolitan dialect, meaning even viewers in Italy need subtitles. The intricacies of speech are important. Neapolitan is the language of the neighbourhood, while Italian represents a life beyond it.

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   Who is Lila in my Brilliant Friend?

   • 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.

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9. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/12/10The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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   Dec 3, 2018 · “My Brilliant Friend” is a story about many things—left-wing politics, male violence, fancy shoes, the warping force of patriarchy on female creativity—but it’s centrally about class ...