My Brilliant Friend: First Photo From Season 2 Of HBO/RAI Fiction Series

HBO has released the first official image from the second season of My Brilliant Friend, featuring Margherita Mazzucco as Elena and Gaia Girace as Lila (see above.

Based on Elena Ferrantes second book of her four-part series The Story of a New Name, the second chapter begins where the series left off at the end of the first season. Lila and Elena are sixteen. Lila has just gotten married, but believes she has lost her own identity when she took her husbands name. Elena is a model student, but while at Lilas wedding, she realized she was not happy inside or outside her neighborhood.

During a holiday in Ischia, the two girls reunite with their old childhood acquaintance Nino Sarratore, now a university student with great expectations. The apparently random encounter will forever change the nature of their bond, projecting the girls into two completely different worlds. Lila becomes a skillful sales assistant in the elegant shoe shop in central Naples owned by the powerful Solara family; while Elena obstinately continues her studies and is prepared to leave town to go to University in Pisa.

Ferrantes My Brilliant Friend book series is published in the U.S. by Europa Editions. Season one director Saverio Costanzo (Private, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Hungry Hearts) will return to direct six episodes and Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro, Le Meraviglie) will direct two episodes.

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