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Ferrante fever back with HBO's My Brilliant Friend

Ferrante fever back with HBO's My Brilliant Friend

In Italy on 27/11, Maggie Gyllenhaal to direct The Lost Daughter

New York, 21 November 2018, 17:38

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Ferrante fever is once again heating up in the United States following the small-screen debut on Sunday of Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" on HBO, in an eight-episode miniseries.
    The miniseries will begin airing in Italy on November 27 on RAI1, Raiplay and Timvision.
    The production, directed by Saverio Costanzo with Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino as producer, has been widely reviewed in the States.
    Rolling Stone magazine called it "an emotional wallop", and the New Yorker called it "a Prada ad for working-class gloom, but with shades of humble tenderness".
    "The adaptation is faithful, though not slavishly so," the New Yorker said. Regarding fashion (spoiler alert): the wedding dress as well as the shoes that Lila makes in her father's shop will be designed by Valentino stylist Pierpaolo Piccioli.
    The miniseries is adapted from the first of Ferrante's four Neapolitan Novels, which tell the story of a lifetime friendship between Elena Greco (Lenù), the narrator, and her friend Lila Cerullo. Their friendship begins during their elementary school years in a working-class neighborhood of 1950s Naples.
    The New York Times called the series "an intimate epic".
    It compared the challenge of adapting the series for the screen to that of Game of Thrones, due to fans' "exacting expectations".
    In Italy, the first two episodes premiered in September at the Venice Film Festival.
    The HBO series is a co-production with Rai Fiction, Timvision, Wildside and Fandango.
    Meanwhile, American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has been tapped to direct the adaptation of Ferrante's fourth book, The Lost Daughter, which followed Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, and Fragments.
    Gyllenhaal spent weeks discussing her vision for the adaptation with Ferrante, through the author's publishing house, Edizioni E/O.
    After the discussions, Ferrante gave Gyllenhaal the rights to the adaptation, on one condition: "As long as you are the director".
   

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