![]() ![]() ![]() How They Created That WTF Sandpit Sequence in ‘Barry’ Episode 4 The Italian production now begins a gorgeously wrought second season that vividly recreates 1950s postwar Naples, and the complex relationships among its denizens, all of whom are looking for something more among the ruins.ĭirector Saverio Costanzo returns to helm the first episode of the new season, lifting from the sequel to “ My Brilliant Friend,” “The Story of a New Name.” However, this season he hands over directing duties on two episodes to fellow Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, whose exacting visions of female woes in films such as “Happy as Lazzaro” and “The Wonders” have primed her to take on Ferrante. Their riveting, decades-long push-pull is explored across the four novels in Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, which have been adapted into an equally riveting series for HBO. ![]() The deeply realized dynamic between childhood best friends turned frenemies Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo could hardly be conjured from a male gaze. Anyone who ever thought that secretive Italian author Elena Ferrante is actually a man hiding behind a female nom de plume is surely dreaming. ![]()
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