My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Nameis a lush anti-romance: Review
The Elena Ferrante adaptation continues with lush romance and sensitive feminist rage. One unusual thing I love aboutMy Brilliant Friendis my complete inability to figure out how old anyone is. Lila is every fiery adjective ever written about Italian women. Credit: Eduardo Castaldo/HBO They protect each other, and compete bitterly. Girace brims with glamorous assurance, giving her rebel-with-a-cause polymath a snarly humor. But series creator Saverio Costanzo, who directs most episodes, gets more visually audacious in his dramatization....