My Brilliant Friend 4: The Trailer That Tears Our Hearts Out

We have waited a long time, too long, to see the fourth and final season of My Brilliant Friendand we will wait again, since the production has decided that the series will debut first in America and only later in Italy, reaching prime time on Rai1 on November 11th. Along with the desire to see with our own eyes how the story ends, we are also heartbroken because It will be the last time we see Lila and Lenù togetherbest friends and enemies by nature, so different and yet so similar, united by that hunger that the Rione has instilled in them since they were little girls and were afraid of being kidnapped by Don Achille. Theirs is a hunger for redemption which, in post-war Italy, passed almost exclusively through the possibility of studying that Lenù had and Lila did not. It is there that the two take two tracks that now run parallel and now meet, and it is always there that Lenù realizes that whatever she will do in her life might not have been up to what Lila would have done if she had been in her place. In between, as we know, there is everything: love, jealousy, pain, anger, ruin, revenge and the blurring of the margins which has now become a constant in Ferrante’s narrative.

Now, however, the day of reckoning has come, the final act of My Brilliant Friend, Story of the Lost Child, which will officially close the glorious transposition of Ferrante’s masterpiece into images, bringing the public back to the Rione for the last time. It starts from mid 70s, with Lila and Lenù who find themselves adults again back to Naples. The choices they made have distanced them, but now they find each other again. Elena has become an established writer and returns to her city to chase Nino, while Lila has remained in Naples, focused on her career as an IT entrepreneur that will once again bring her into conflict with the powerful Solara brothers. There will be love, betrayal, children born and natural disasters in the background (such as the 1980 earthquake) to accompany their vicissitudes until they explode in one of the most intense and painful endings in contemporary literaturewith that mysterious disappearance that also opened the first chapter of My Brilliant Friend and which will now represent the point of suspension of a story that will never really end considering that, as recently underlined by New York TimesLila and Lenù have insinuated themselves under the skin much more than Ferrante herself expected.

The ultimate test – even if the very first trailer shows as always a very high level of acting and direction – will be to understand how the public will take the change of cast, given that, after three seasons, the two leading actresses, Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Giracevery good, will give way to their adult versions, namely Alba Rohrwacher and Irene Maiorino. They will not be alone, however, since we will also find Fabrizio Gifuni in the role of the hateful Nino Sarratore, Edward Fish in those of Michele Solara and Sonia Bergamasco in the role of Maria Rosa Airota. Together with Stephen Dionisi (Franco Mari), Pier Giorgio Bellocchio (Peter Airota) and Linen Musella (Marcello Solara), we will find some of the past seasons of My Brilliant Friend Eduardo Scarpetta (Pasquale Peluso), Anna Rita Vitolo in the role of Immacolata Greco, Elena’s mother, and Daria Deflorian in the role of Adele Airota, Pietro’s mother. The fourth season of My Brilliant Friendwas filmed in part filmed in Florence and it obviously ended in Naples. The plot and the scripts of the final season are still by Elena Ferrante, Francis Little, Laura Paolucci And Saverio Costanzo, while the director is there Laura Bispuri. The executive producers are Saverio Costanzo, Paolo Sorrentino, Jennifer Schuur, Elena Recchia and Guido De Laurentiis.