The brilliant friend, the return of Lila and Lenù

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 21 - From February 10, the first season of RAI1 arrives on the second season of The brilliant friend, projected as a world preview at the Rai headquarters in Viale Mazzini, taken from the second book from Elena Ferrante's bestselling quadrilogy (edition and / or ). The events pick up exactly where the first season ended. Lila (Gaia Girace) and Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) are sixteen years old and feel in a blind alley. If the first season moved on the horizontal plane of childhood that faces the world of adolescence with questions and pre-power, in History of the new name Saverio Costanzo reaches a new level of depth, investigating the lights and shadows of two young women who are not clear where want to get there.
Divided between what is right and what they feel, Lila and Lenu will once again be the protagonists of a story that belongs to everyone and that, in the background, sees Italy changing its face, among the workers' strikes and student movements.
A preview at the cinema only on January 27th, 28th and 29th (Nexo Digital distribution) for the series that preserves intact the charm of the first season, praised by the public and by the criticism for having recreated with infinite fidelity the microcosmotracciata by the pen of Elena Ferrante. The director Alice Rohrwacher, winner in 2014 of the Special Grand Prix of the Jury for Wonders and in 2018 the prize for the Best Screenplay for Lazzaro Felice at the Cannes Film Festival, having directed two of the eight episodes, those set in Ischia. A production by Fandango, The Apartment and Wildside, part of Fremantle In collaboration with Rai Fiction n collaboration with HBO Entertainment In co-production with Mowe and Umedia. The event series in four evenings (8 episodes of 50 ') will be broadcast in world premiere on Rai1 and online on RaiPlay. (HANDLE).