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My Brilliant Friend (TV Series)

L'amica geniale

2018

Saverio Costanzo

Margherita Mazzucco, Elisa Del Genio, Gaia Girace, Ludovica Nasti ...

7.7

2,643

TV Series. Drama TV Series (2018-Present Day). 3 Seasons. 24 Episodes. When the most important friend of her life appears to have vanished without a trace, Elena Greco, an elderly woman who lives in a house filled with books, turns on her computer and starts to write the story of herself and Lila, the story of a friendship born at elementary school in the 1950s. Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, the account that follows covers more than sixty ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Inkoo Kang The Washington Post	"[3rd Season Review]: The production and scenery are gorgeous; the score (by Max Richter) lush and haunting; the direction grand, immersive and occasionally hallucinatory; the performances seldom not pitch-perfect"
		Amanda Whiting IndieWire	"[3rd Season Review]: 'My Brilliant Friend' puts forward a compelling theory of home as a sphere of competency rather than a place of comfort."
		Noel Murray AV Club	"[3rd Season Review]: The main reason to love 'My Brilliant Friend' is that it contains one of the most honest, unsentimental depictions of friendship—female or otherwise—in either literature or television."
		Glenn Sumi Now Toronto	"[3rd Season Review]: [It] continues to be one of the most evocative and intelligent literary adaptations ever made."
		Michael Starr New York Post	"[3rd Season Review]: The new showrunner/director, Daniele Luchetti, does a commendable job of integrating the country’s ’70s-era current events into the episodes"
		Caroline Framke Variety	"[2nd Season Review]: An unusually thoughtful, perceptive series, taking the interiority of teenage girls and women seriously while immersing its audience in a specific culture"
		Inkoo Kang The Hollywood Reporter	"[2nd Season Review]: Builds masterfully on the weaker debut season (...) [A] marvelous, harrowing sophomore season"
		Lara Zarum Rolling Stone	"[2nd Season Review]: Characters’ inner lives are beautifully conveyed without words (...) The brilliance of the series, and the books, is how it ties these feelings of frustration and powerlessness to the act of creation"
		Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire	"[2nd Season Review]: Visually, it’s hard to think of a more striking show on television (...) Scenes with Lila and Elena together possess an almost Bergmanesque framing"
		Dorothy Rabinowitz The Wall Street Journal	"[2nd Season Review]: 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 and Lila]"
		Daniel D'Addario Variety	"Its ability to conjure up the world of children confused at the happenings around them is its own achievement. 'My Brilliant Friend' is an impressive effort"
		Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"A handsome, largely dedicated Ferrante adaptation that, at least in this early going, is marked by spectacular casting of its inexperienced leads."
		Ben Travers IndieWire	"[It] elevates oft-ignored stories, but lacks enough artistic insight to hit home (...) Faithful to a fault, much of the impact is lost in translation."
		Camillo de Marco Cineuropa	"'My Brilliant Friend' doesn’t shy away from adopting the same pace as the novel, and in its rich slowness it almost seems like an anti-TV series"
		Emily Yoshida Vulture	"There’s a mechanical quality to these early episodes, which is certainly not a word you want associated with an adaptation of Ferrante."

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