![]() Lila is dusky, unruly and brilliant, threatening Elena’s established position at the top of every class. On Elena’s words, the story flashes back to 1950s Naples, introducing Elena (Elisa Del Genio) and Lila (Ludovica Nasti) as grade-schoolers. As an act of poetic revenge mirroring their relationship, Elena decides not to let Lila have the last word and sits down to recount a shared history adding, “I’ll write your whole story, not just what I saw.” Elena’s lifelong friend Lila is missing and has been gone for two months, leaving no trace. This maintains the structure of Ferrante’s books - and also, thankfully, its Italian language, when one can easily imagine an American cable network asking recognizable Hollywood stars to attempt this in accented English. ![]() ![]() My Brilliant Friend opens with 60-something Elena answering a panicked late-night call. ![]()
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