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The first trailer for HBO's adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend has been released. posted by grumpybear69 (17 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
 
And on FanFare: My Brilliant Friend (book).
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:05 AM on August 31, 2018 [2 favorites]


Oh wow. This looks excellent.
posted by sunset in snow country at 7:11 AM on August 31, 2018


I'm so looking forward to this.
In the meantime, please enjoy a whole tumblr about how awful Nino is.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:14 AM on August 31, 2018 [7 favorites]


Oh my gosh, it looks fantastic. I don't get HBO so I'll have to wait for it to come out on streaming or DVD or whatever.
posted by PussKillian at 7:21 AM on August 31, 2018


I can't see the linked trailer from the UK, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxqmF1hJs1E appears to work (for now, at least).

It's very exciting!
posted by smcg at 7:30 AM on August 31, 2018 [1 favorite]


This looks really good, but I don't know if an adaptation can capture the amazing amount of emotional violence packed into even the smaller moments.
posted by betweenthebars at 8:11 AM on August 31, 2018 [3 favorites]


I'm so tempted to reread the book in preparation. God, I loved that book.
posted by palomar at 8:22 AM on August 31, 2018


Nino is amazingly awful, but honestly, no one in those books is really very good.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:12 AM on August 31, 2018


I can't wait to see it. Also, Nino is trash.
posted by BlahLaLa at 10:45 AM on August 31, 2018


Anybody know the music at the end of the trailer?
posted by gucci mane at 10:54 AM on August 31, 2018


Hm, looks a little too... theatrical, I would have expected more realism from Costanzo.

But then, with books like these, no-one stands a chance of getting this really right.

Anybody know the music at the end of the trailer?
Max Richter's recomposed Vivaldi – The Four Seasons - again, not really what I'd had in my head while reading, but...
posted by progosk at 11:25 AM on August 31, 2018


The link to the video is now not loading - I get the you tube page but with a big grey exclamation point. Was it taken down?
posted by PussKillian at 11:34 AM on August 31, 2018 [1 favorite]


I'M NOT READY
posted by praemunire at 11:39 AM on August 31, 2018 [2 favorites]


In the meantime, please enjoy a whole tumblr about how awful Nino is.

I've just finished Those Who Leave and I am almost physically unprepared for how awful I know Nino is about to be, culminating his long career as fuckboi. I wanted to physically fling myself between the two of them.
posted by praemunire at 11:40 AM on August 31, 2018 [2 favorites]


Hmm, the link does appear to have died. Here's another one.
posted by grumpybear69 at 1:17 PM on August 31, 2018 [1 favorite]


Ha, yes, he does not come to see the light in book 4.
posted by Chrysostom at 1:31 PM on August 31, 2018


I don’t know if I should look.
posted by 8k at 6:43 AM on September 3, 2018


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