#mybrilliantfriend

[tomorrowedblog]

My Brilliant Friend S4 premieres today

The fourth season of My Brilliant Friend, the TV series from Saverio Costanzo, is out today.

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND follows Elena Greco and the most important friend in her life, Raffaella “Lila” Cerullo. After meeting as children in 1950s Naples, their story goes on to cover over 60 years, exploring the mystery of Lila – Elena’s brilliant best friend and, in a way, her worst enemy. The fourth installment of the saga, titled “Story of the Lost Child,” delves into the adult lives of Elena and Lila. They find themselves entangled in the turmoil of Italy in the late 1980s, nearing the end of decades of political violence and social unrest. Amid motherhood and career demands, amid betrayals, threats, disappearances, and natural disasters, Elena and Lila once again reside in the same neighborhood.

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2024.09.09

Monday, September 9th:

(exclusive): Hot Wheels: Let's Race (netflix, kids animated season 2A available, first 5 eps)

(streaming shows): Futurama (hulu), Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc (netflix), Under the Vines (AcornTV, penultimate), "No Gain, No Love" (APrime)

(also new): Jeopardy! (synd., season 41 opener), Wheel of Fortune (synd., season 42 opener, new host Ryan Seacrest)

(hour 1): All American: Homecoming (theCW), Name That Tune (FOX, season 4 finale), American Ninja Warrior (NBC, 2hrs)

(hour 2): My Brilliant Friend (HBO, season 4 "The Lost Child" opener), 61st Street (theCW, series finale), The 1% Club (FOX, season 1 finale), American Ninja Warrior (NBC, contd, season 16 finale), Wild 'n Out (VH1), Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman (HIST)

(hour 3): English Teacher (FX), The Wall (NBC, season 5 finale), POV (PBS, "Name Me Lawand", 90mins), Gangland Chronicles (HIST) / . / Prison Chronicles (HIST)

(hour 4 - latenight): The Anonymous (USA), The Daily Show (COM, host Jordan Klepper) [note: Jon Stewart will host tomorrow night after the debate.]

[bipaulinadlm]

alfonso caracci mybrilliantfriend and andrea risorio prisma are so me. but like flipped around. but also i don’t want to talk about it

[sarahreesbrennan]

I love losing myself in a book and in these times of doom scrolling it’s tougher. On vacation I also give myself a chance to escape into fiction. I know many read Elena Ferrante before me (there is a TV show!) but this was the first read I loved on holiday. Favourite line: ‘So I was second in everything. I hoped that no one would ever realise it.’ I think we’ve all felt like that—and I love how the book tilts and swings, making it clear both girls feel this way at times and at other times or at the very same time inspire each other. I loathe in fiction when female friendships are reduced to cattiness or bland sisterhood, when they can be such tangled nets of gold and dark. I read an article about women who had known each other from their teens to their 70s, through the deaths of husbands and children. ‘She is the witness of my life’ one said. #MyBrilliantFriend made me grateful for stories and for some of my own brilliant friends. #sarahreesbrennan #thecanaryislands #bookrecommendations #sarahslilescapes https://www.instagram.com/p/Cei_tLErSwC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[camillacinematica]

#lamicageniale #series #seriestv #quotes #seriesquotes #quotesseries #seriestvquotes #quotesseriestv #elena #lila #lenù #thebrilliantfriend #mybrilliantfriend #book #cult #elenaferrante #naples #napoli #napulè #elenaelila https://www.instagram.com/p/COqmMPGl6YI/?igshid=1nbnjlfb3q66e

[delistravaganza]

Can we agree that they need an official ship name once and for all and may I suggest #MyBrilliantLover (#LAmanteGeniale). I know it sounds kind of old-fashioned but LET ME EXPLAIN.

Definition of brilliant 1: very bright : GLITTERING 2a: STRIKING, DISTINCTIVE b: distinguished by unusual mental keenness or alertness 3-British : very good : EXCELLENT

Definition of lover 1a: a person in love b-lovers plural : two persons in love with each other 2: an affectionate or benevolent friend

(I lowkey ship Lila and Enzo a little bit, but that’s a fully different story. You may call them Brilliant Engineers)

[lejardindesillusions]

L’amica geniale @kepners

[nomanwalksalone]

LINCOLN AND LILA

by David Isle

In an 1838 speech, a young Abraham Lincoln lamented that his generation could never achieve a place in history equal to Washington’s. No glory could compare to the “display before an admiring world, a practical demonstration of the truth of a proposition, which had hitherto been considered at best no better than problematical; namely, the capability of a people to govern themselves …. This field of glory is harvested, and the crop is already appropriated.” Lincoln and his generation were left with only the more prosaic task of preserving the “political edifice of liberty and equal rights” for future Americans.

I wouldn’t call this nostalgia, exactly. Just as there are different sorts of satisfaction in the present—for instance, happiness from lack of want, fulfillment from exertion towards a higher purpose—there are different sorts of idealization of the past. Lincoln’s yearning is not for a beatific past but the opposite – a past of tumult, but also one of opportunity and perhaps more importantly, meaning and glory.

Though removed by an ocean and a couple of centuries, I get the same feeling from Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, now dramatized (the first two books, at least) in the TV series My Brilliant Friend.  The story begins in post-WWII Naples, a time and place of extreme poverty and desperation.  But also of great achievement, which many Neapolitans today look back on with pride.  The city revolted against Nazi occupation during the War, and after the War launched decades of economic advancement unknown in Europe before or since.  Reading the books at their publication in the 2010s feels, even in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, like a trip back to a time when one didn’t have to look hard for purpose in life.  Survival itself was more than a day’s work.  Being so close to death, the characters seem more alive.

Ferrante doubles the refraction by her placement of the narrator.  Not only are we, the readers, looking back on a more gloried time, but the narrator Elena tells the story of her more gloried and more economically disadvantaged friend, Lila.  Though Elena excels in school, she recognizes Lila’s brilliance as brighter than her own.  Although, or perhaps because, Lila’s circumstances do not permit the path of academic advancement that Elena follows, Elena envies Lila’s ability to harvest and appropriate the glories of life.  At one point, Elena recounts the various aspects of her life that she experiences only “quasi” –almost—but that Lila experiences fully.

Lila also does not suffer from any attachment to history, national or personal.  The great exertions of her formidable creative power—a story she wrote as a young girl, the shoes she designed for her production with her brother—she quickly abandons.  In both cases, she later explains them as only attempts to escape the desperate poverty and precarity of the neighborhood where she and Elena grew up.  When Elena—always searching for a higher meaning—tries to show Lila the beauty in the story she wrote, Lila dismisses her, and says her interest in the story was purely mercenary.  Elena is left to wonder whether her own appreciation of Lila’s story is silly or refined, whether seeing the artist’s work as more profound than the artist brings her closer to or further from glory. Whether she has overcome, or merely repeated, Lila’s fullness and her own quasi-ness.

History eventually found Lincoln, of course.  If he revisited his Lyceum address in the summer of 1864, he may have read with a grimace his glorification of the “living history [of the Revolution] … found in every family—a history bearing the indubitable testimonies of its own authenticity, in the limbs mangled, in the scars of wounds received….”  But decades later, Americans would look back at the Civil War, even their own mangled limbs, and see a field of glory.

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Era per me come un’opera d’arte contemporanea, una di quelle che non si riesce a comprendere dalla prima occhiata. Come un Seurat che va visto da una certa prospettiva per essere apprezzato.

Cinico come Sartre e irriverente come Rimbaud.

Era per me “quelle occulte mani che m’intridono e mi regalano la rara felicità” di Ungaretti e l’albatro di Baudelaire.

Era arte, poesia, letteratura e musica tutte insieme. Uno sguardo sul mondo con occhi diversi, che io imparai a conoscere.

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[cara-mia05]

OC x reader

Lila cerullo x reader

world of my brilliant friend

language : español/castellano

En aquellos malditos días, entendí que Lila era parte fundamental de Lenù, pero no viceversa.

El sol bajó de repente aquellos días..para levantarse solo y cuando Lila volvía a entrar en la casa y en la habitación misma. Enzo había llevado Rinuccio al mar en una especie de colonia personal.

Les REALMENTE de menos,

Enzo y sus ojos azul océano o azul cachemir

siempre tan bueno y tranquilo.

olía a pan.

al contrario de los hombres de su año, me parecía una flor en un campo estéril.

dejó de amar a Lila? nunca. Lila lo amaba con una pasión ardua, pero no física

la mente

la mente

la mente

Lila y la mente.

Pero como se dió cuenta de quién era realmente Stefano, así sucedió con Enzo.

[tomorrowedblog]

First look at My Brilliant Friend S4

A new trailer has been released for the fourth season of My Brilliant Friend, which is set to release September 9, 2024.

The Story of the Lost Child.

[mediamania]

My Brilliant Friend, 2018

S01, E04: Le Smarginatura (Dissolving Margins)

Directed by Saverio Costanzo and Alice Rohrwacher.

[thenightporter]

Corriamo sotto la pioggia

Perché tutto ci annoia.

[camillacinematica]

#mybrilliantfriend #lamicageniale #storiadelnuovocognome #quotes #series #seriestv #quotesseriestv #seriestvquotes #seriesquotes #quotesseries #elenaferrante #elenaelila #book #cult #elena #lila #lenù #naples #napulè #napoli https://www.instagram.com/p/COyCzYnFMJu/?igshid=crqa5lpl683l

[joanaavillez]

Drawing done inside the book on the beach in Portugal 2 summers ago #MyBrilliantFriend https://www.instagram.com/p/BrTjANZA7Mw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q41wg7xxtfuj

[lejardindesillusions]

Lila & Lenù ♥

@thebeautyis