"The brilliant friend", the pictorial power of a fictional emotion

& # 39; L & # 39;brilliant friend », the editorial case of the "mysterious" Elena Ferrante, is now a television series containing the four books where the story of Lila and Lenù, first girls, then teenage girls, follows behind the scenes of a miserable neighborhood of the Neapolitan suburbs, then, harbadment in the polyphonic mixture of adult life. Between fascinating digressions, majestic and realistic loops, luminous deviations, we are irresistibly captivated by a narration that possesses at the same time a prodigious pictorial power (irreproducible by the word) and an attention to the most hidden rhythms: Lenù Greco (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila Cerullo (Gaia Girace) are the best friends and the worst enemies. One is twice the other, but also its opposite, its missing part.

Produced by Hbo-Rai Fiction with Wildside, Fandango and Timvision, the series directed by Saverio Costanzo, who also signs the script with Laura Paolucci, Francesco Piccolo and Elena Ferrante (whoever it is), is broadcast by Rai1 (Tuesday 9:25 pm) and made available on the platforms of Timvision and Raiplay. Has Italian fiction finally reached the desired level of maturity for a long time? Yes, violence, tragedy, friendship, irony, anger, astonishment, feelings, all here countering this drama of emotions sinking into the concrete things, to be redeemed later by a sumptuous writing that frees the characters from the determinism of their "tiny lives". With formal clarity, as only Rossellini could do, loading the neorealistic characters into his lens of impenetrable, metaphysical thoughts. As it is strange, in "Detective story", in "Gomorrah", In "The brilliant friendThe widespread use of the dialect does not prevent an international distribution. And then, mystery of mysteries, the series are more beautiful than the books from which they are drawn.