We knew that sooner or later the fourth and final season of The brilliant friend would have revealed his cards, and that’s why the first shot depicting the new Lila and Lenù quickly went around the Net, rekindling the enthusiasm of the fans who can’t wait to witness the grand finale of a story that has bewitched by millions of people around the world, passionate or not of the Elena Ferrante quadrilogy. The thing that immediately catches the eye of Story of the Lost Girl – this is the title of the last chapter de The Brilliant Friend – is that the actresses, due to obvious age limits, have changed: in fact, the very talented Gaia Girace and Margherita Mazzucco are no longer playing Lila and Lenù but Irene Maiorino and Alba Rohrwacher, whose presence had already been anticipated on the final of History of those who flee and those who stay.
Together with the protagonists, the rest of the cast is also changing, which for now remains top secret with only one exception: to lend the face to the controversial Nino Sarratore, who in the third season convinced Lenù to leave the marital roof to flee with him, not it is more Francesco Serpico, but Fabrizio Gifuni. The direction also changes which, after Saverio Costanzo, Alice Rohrwacher and Daniele Lucchetti, ends up in the hands of Laura Bispuri, who has the burden and the honor of concluding Ferranti’s quadrilogy with the darkest and most melancholy chapter there is. Story of the Lost Girl in fact, the story will pick up where it left off, with Lenù leaving Naples to become an established writer and Lila choosing to stay there, increasingly entangled in the affairs of the underworld.
For those who have read the book, confront the grand finale de The brilliant friend it will be a punch in the stomach difficult to metabolize, but that we are sure the series will be able to transpose with fidelity and heart as it did with the previous three seasons. The series, produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment and Wildside (both companies of the Fremantle group) and by Domenico Procacci for Fandango, in collaboration with Rai Fiction and HBO Entertainment and written by Elena Ferrante, Francesco Piccolo, Laura Paolucci and Saverio Costanzo, does not yet have a release dateeven if we can’t wait to give Lila and Lenù our last hug: first on Rai1 and then in the 170 countries where it was sold The Brilliant Friend.
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