The long-awaited return of 'The brilliant friend' has a premiere date: trailer and everything we know about season 4
The final season adapts the fourth volume of Elena Ferrante's 'The Neapolitan Novels' series, with new lead actresses.
7 August, 2024 11:21After House of the Dragon and Industry, HBO already has ready what will be its next big premiere. The wait has been eternal, but the return of My Brilliant Friend is confirmed and it will be in September when Max premieres in Spain the fourth season of the series based on Elena Ferrante's epic work.
This installment, in which we will no longer see Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace as Elena and Lila, will be the last and adapts the novel The Lost Daughter from the Two Friends series, in which the story continues with the two protagonists in their adult years.
In the first season, the series starts like the book, in the present time, with Elena answering the nervous call from Lila's son who asks for his mother, who has disappeared without a trace. Elena doesn't know where she is, but she doesn't get upset or worried because she understands that she has disappeared voluntarily. Elena then turns on the computer to write the story of their friendship, a journey that spans six decades.
'My Brilliant Friend'
My Brilliant Friend is the narration of a woman who at 60 decides to retrace all the steps that marked her life, a life that began the day she met Lila, when they were girls in 1950s Naples, and that has since always run parallel to hers. A story that explores the mystery of Lila, her brilliant best friend. Her worst enemy. Her muse.
This is what season 4 will be like
In the third installment, the series reflected the changes of the 70s, the awakening of the feminist movement and class struggle. Elena escaped from the neighborhood and poverty, married Pietro, an academic man, lives in Florence and has the world at her fingertips, but motherhood and a comfortable home life have subdued her creative energy.
In the fourth season, a youthful love that blossoms again will bring Elena back to Naples, where Lila awaits her, who is now a mother and has also succeeded in her own way in the local business. Elena is the cultured lady, Lila is apparently the neighborhood woman, ignorant and unwilling to refine, but pure intelligence and intuition are on Lila's side.
'My Brilliant Friend' has the new Lila and Elena for season 4 of the series
A new cast
This installment, in which we will no longer see Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace as Elena and Lila, will be the last and adapts the novel The Lost Daughter, the fourth volume of Elena Ferrante's series Two Friends, in which the story follows the two protagonists in their adult years.
The pair of actresses who will play the two protagonists in the new episodes are Alba Rohrwacher (The Dark Daughter), who briefly appeared as Elena in the final scene of the last episode, and joins Irene Maiorino (Gomorrah) in the role of Lila.
Also joining the cast is Fabrizio Gifuni (Exterior Night), who plays Nino Sarratore, the writer who has long been the object of Lenù's affection. The direction of this season is led by Laura Bispuri, known for the transgender-themed drama Sworn Virgin and Daughter of Mine. Both films starred Rohrwacher.
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When and where to watch it
Season 4 will have 10 episodes that can be watched in Spain through Max. The first one will be available on September 10 and there will be a new one every Tuesday until November 12.
*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence
