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My Brilliant Friend Recap: Hanging by a Thread
It’s a monumental episode in the relationship between Lenù and Lila and the earthquake that struck Italy, but the show’s depictions feel narrow.
Out the window, Lenù spots familiar faces — Alfonso rushes by, carrying his children; Antonio holds his wife; her mother and father sit in the back seat of Marcello and Elisa’s car. Though its breathlessness is apt, there is a clarity of purpose to Irene Maiorino’s speech that undermines the spontaneous, almost involuntary nature of Lila’s sudden confession, which is born out of the earth itself splitting nearly in half. • Though I wasn’t very impressed with the way director Laura Bispuri captured the earthquake, I thought she crafted one inspired frame early in the episode when Lenù and Lila are leaving the gynecologist’s office.
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