HBO's My Brilliant Friend — New Official Trailer

added: Mon, Nov 12th '18

Check out the new official trailer for "My Brilliant Friend," HBO's coming-of-age Italian series based on the 2012 international best-selling novel of the same name by Italian novelist Elena Ferrante.

Spanning over the course of several decades, the eight-episode HBO drama chronicles the lifelong friendship (sometimes rivalry) between Elena (aka "Lenu") and Lila, two very different Italian women from the same neighborhood in Naples who first met at primary school in the early 1950s.

Newcomers Elisa Del Genio and Ludovica Nasti play Elena and Lila as young children, while Italian actresses Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace are playing them as older teenagers.

"My Brilliant Friend," which is set to premiere Sunday, November 18th on HBO, is directed entirely by acclaimed Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo whose film credits include 2014's Venice Film Festival-winning marital drama-thriller "Hungry Hearts" and who directed two seasons of Italy's version of the psychotherapy drama series "In Treatment."

synopsis:
Based on Elena Ferrante's bestselling book of the same name -- the first novel in a four-part series published in the U.S. by Europa Editions -- "MY BRILLIANT FRIEND" is being directed by award-winning Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo.

The series tells the story of Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman who discovers the most important friend in her life, Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo, seems to have disappeared with a trace. A writer, immersed in a house full of books, Greco turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their tempestuous friendship, starting from the point when Elena met Lila their first year of primary school in 1950.

Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, their story goes on to cover more than 60 years of their lives as she tries to describe the mystery of Lila, Elena's brilliant friend and -- in a way -- her best friend, and worst enemy.

directed by Saverio Costanzo

starring Elisa Del Genio, Ludovica Nasti, Margherita Mazzucco, Gaia Girace

release date November 18, 2018 (on HBO)

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HBO's My Brilliant Friend