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Lila and Lenu - My Brilliant Friend
#l’amica geniale#my brilliant friend#elena greco#lila cerullo#l’amica geniale 4#storia della bambina perduta#the story of the lost child#alba rohrwacher#irene maiorino
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“Relationships between women don’t have solid rules like those between men,” says the Italian author Elena Ferrante. “I was interested in recounting how a long friendship between two women could endure and survive in spite of good and bad feelings, dependence and rebellion, mutual support and betrayal.”
#my brilliant friend#l’amica geniale#gaia girace#margherita mazzucco#irene maiorino#alba rohrwacher#elena ferrante#ludovica nasti#elisa del genio
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no one has ever described girlhood like elena ferrante. the expectations. the inherent dissatisfaction, with your body, with who you are, or rather who you’re becoming. the competition. being the centre of your universe, viewing everyone pretty much exclusively in relation to yourself. learning not to. beautiful and in sparkling prose and not overly romanticised. i am so emo abt my brilliant friend rn. Elena Ferrante the woman you are.
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Sometimes a family is you, your childhood friend with whom you maintain a toxic, sapphic-tinged codependency, her partner who used to throw rocks at you as kids but turned out to be the only decent man you’ve known in your lives, the good-for-nothing son from your friend’s first marriage, your daughters from your first marriage to the man you cheated on with the father of your third daughter, and the youngest daughter of your friend and her life companion. Welcome to The End of the Nuclear Family with Lenù Greco and Lila Cerullo by Elena Ferrante.
#i love them#they’re just role models#they used to be my world until the great tragedy#now they’re my roman empire because the great tragedy#i saw them growing up#my babies#lila cerullo#rafaella cerullo#elena greco#lenu greco#enzo scanno#enzo x lila#lila and lenu#l’amica geniale#my brilliant friend#elena ferrante
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(credit to @/printempsdesens on twitter)
#from the italian premiere at rome film festival tonight!#my brilliant friend#l’amica geniale#serie tv#elena greco#lila cerullo#irene maiorino#gaia girace#margherita mazzucco#alba rohrwacher#tappeti rossi#mbfedit
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lenu understanding nino by repeatedly being like who wouldn’t love lila is so insane when you go to a few pages back and she always sees nino as someone akin to herself. she loves nino because of what being with him could mean for her, what potential she can unlock, as if he’s her but a few steps ahead. and she doesn’t reproach him for kissing and loving lila. it’s literally her saying she would’ve done the same. who wouldn’t have? it’s only natural to love lila.
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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “My Brilliant Friend” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd
me: yeah whatever. i don’t feel shit.
5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw my loved ones lose their concrete forms and be reduced to abstract manifestations of their basest instincts
my buddy Lila pacing: the Solaras are lying to us
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whoever was in charge of this casting deserves a raise a kiss on the check and my unconditional love
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They’re everything to me if you even care
#my brilliant friend#l’amica geniale#lila cerullo#enzo scanno#elena ferrante#elena greco#Evie talks#neapolitan novels
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The Story of the Lost Child Chapter 27: Compromises
#I LOVE YOU LILA CERULLO#l’amica geniale#my brilliant friend#elena greco#lila cerullo#l’amica geniale 4#storia della bambina perduta#the story of the lost child#irene maiorino
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Casting Irene Maiorino as adult Lila is just 🙌🙌👏🙏👸🏻
#the casting on this show is always impeccable#truly true to the books#l’amica geniale#my brilliant friend
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Lena is a complex character, obscure to herself. She takes on the task of keeping Lila in the net of the story even against her friend’s will. These actions seem to be motivated by love, but are they really? It has always fascinated me how a story comes to us through the filter of a protagonist whose consciousness is limited, inadequate, shaped by the facts that she herself is recounting, though she doesn’t feel that way at all. My books are like that: the narrator must continually deal with situations, people, and events she doesn’t control, and which do not allow themselves to be told. I like stories in which the effort to reduce experience to story progressively undermines the confidence of she who is writing, her conviction that the means of expression at her disposal are adequate, and the conventions that at the start made her feel safe.
(Elena Ferrante)
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Lenù just makes my chest hurt. I can’t explain it properly but sometimes when she’s narrating her inner thoughts it makes me cry a little even if it’s nothing too sad. just the sense of confusion, and being unable to put together all the pieces of your life and make sense of them, unable to plan ahead. it feels so murky and it’s so painfully relatable. I think part of growing up is the element of control - over pretty much everything. what you eat, what you wear, what you say, how you look, how you present yourself - and when you’re young, it’s sort of a massive destabilising part of your life yknow, it’s a real source of insecurity, feelings of inadequacy and real profound sadness, aimlessness - because no matter what you do you’re not really in control, so how can you know that you’re really yourself, that you know who you are at all?
I also think (and really hope) that as you get older, that feeling will fade. Slowly, sure, but what better time to learn who you are than when you are finally a person in your own right? Finally in control?
I hope to see her learn what SHE cares about, what she likes and what she wants from the world - not what Lila wants, or what she thinks is the right thing to go along with. I can understand her, i’m not saying at all it’s wrong or silly of her - It seems to me that wanting to feel caught up with the people you love, in the same place and on the same path is the safest and most natural thing for a teenager to want. I hope that as time goes on she will realise what she wants from life is hers to define, and hers to take.
I haven’t got so far in the book or in my own life to say this for sure - but i’m excited to see Lenù grow into herself, truly. It gives me hope.
#elena ferrante#l’amica geniale#my brilliant friend#the neapolitan novels#the neapolitan quartet#the story of a new name#lenù greco#lila cerullo#elena greco
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In this house, we support mentally unstable women who’ve been shamed for not fitting into traditional standards of femininity, who’ve had enough of the oppressive society that treated them like spoiled brats just for not keeping it together, and who’ve decided to say screw it all and give in to their rage and violence, doing whatever it takes to get revenge or rise above those who dragged them through the mud.
#rafaella cerullo#lila cerullo#sofia falcone#the penguin hbo#l’amica geniale#female rage is my cardio#let the girs being dark#let the girls being unpleasant#let the girls being angry#let the girls be VIOLENT
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They’re wives, your honor
#l’amica geniale#my brilliant friend#the neapolitan novels#lila cerullo#elena greco#lenu x lila#they’re gay your honor#they’re girlfriends your honor
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