'The friend of genius', Lila and Lenù in the Sixties between anger and ambitions: Two brave bad girls

Lila held captive in a marriage that makes her happy, crushed, in the role of wife, a victim of the violence; Lenù decided to choose his way to become emancipated. The friend of genius - the History of the new cognom and Saverio Costanzo from the book Elena Ferrante , continues to explore the world of women in a magnificent way. Against the background of the changes in Italy, between the strikes and student movements, the two young women, Lila (Gaia Girace) and Lenù (Margaret Mazzucco) cultivate anger and ambitions. Aired on Rai 1 from February 10, the series will have a preview at the cinema, only on 27, 28 and 29 January (distribution Nexo Digital).

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The ward is changed, the 60's leading wellness and social change. "If the first two episodes of the History of the new surname are strongly in continuity with the end of the first season, by the third things are starting to change,” says Costanzo. “Lila and Elena appear to be the most large, adult, friends but also rivals, the two ‘good bad girls’". The first season is inspired by the story neo-realist, the second you grant an evolution film. I had the chance to experience thanks to the novel, everything is written in those pages. The presence of Alice Rohrwacher , who directed the fourth and fifth episode, is a true gift, is an artist with one look right". For Rohrwacher "the intuition of Xavier was to see, in the fourth and in the fifth episode, filmed in Ischia, a novel in itself. Let another director has been an element of rupture, especially for the two girls". Girace and Mazzucco are grown, give the two heroines who interpret the great truths. “We grew up with the characters” explain “by being ourselves. Thanks to a Friend brilliant, we understand how much road have made women to become emancipated. There are rights that we take for granted and which have cost battles”. "Now that the theme of women is at the heart of the chronicles are very proud to have worked on this story, and it strikes me that the first season has been followed by many young women, 33 percent share in the range between 15 and 24 years," says Laura Paolucci, who wrote the screenplay along with Elena Ferrante, Costanzo and Francesco Piccolo.