Pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante has written four mega-popular Neopolitan...
Pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante has written four mega-popular Neopolitan novels that explore the complicated intensity of female friendship. "My Br...
Pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante has written four mega-popular Neopolitan novels that explore the complicated intensity of female friendship. "My Brilliant Friend" is the first in the series, and also the first to be adapted for television. Filmed in Italian, the eight-episode drama centers on 60-year-old author Elena Greco, who learns that the most important friend in her life, Lila Cerrullo, has disappeared without a trace. It causes Elena to reflect on the early days of her friendship in 1950s Naples, Italy, when Elena and Lila are two very different girls at the top of their class. The story goes on to cover more than 60 years of their lives as Elena tries to describe the mystery of Lila.
