conversations With Friends – series based on the first novel by Sally Rooneymillennial writer for millennials – finally lands in Italy from March 10 on RaiPlay. The successes of his books, especially the series based on Normal People (his second book), have made it one of the most awaited titles, also due to the success it has had in England and the United States. At the center of the plot, instead of a couple in formation, there are the feelings and doubts that accompany educated thirty-year-oldsadventurous or refractory to impulses. Supported by brilliant dialogues, the figure of the writer born in 1991.
Conversations With Friends: the plot of the series
Frances (Alison Oliver) e Bobbi (Sasha Lane) are two 20-year-old students – former lovers – of Trinity College Dublin. become very good friends, they write and recite poetry in a place in the city. One evening, during a Poetry Slam, they get Melissa’s attention (Jemima Kirke), a successful writer married to handsome actor Nick (Joe Alwyn).
Alison Oliver and Sasha Lane in a scene from “Conversations With Friends”. (RaiPlay)
Weeks go by and Nick and Frances develop an attraction for each othercomplicated by his marriage to Melissa, but also by Bobbi’s jealousy, perhaps still in love with her ex and unaware of her friend’s clandestine affair.
However, the story between Nick and Frances ends abruptly when the boy leaves Ireland for work reasons but, during the summer, all four find themselves in Croatia. Where further sentimental entanglements will complicate the situation even more and Frances’ life will never be what it was before. Starting from her increasingly intricate relationship with Bobbi.
The phenomenon Sally Rooney and the series Normal People
Born in Ireland in 1991with 3 books, Sally has become the voice of a generationpampered by New Yorker And winner of numerous literary awards including the Booker Prize. The debut takes place in 2018 just with Talk about it among friends – while last year it was published his latest novel Where are you, beautiful world.
Leader of a new current of novelswhere contemporary technology enters by force in the literary pages and in the psychologies of the characters, Rooney must much of his fame to the novel Ordinary people. History of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal)of their attraction despite the difference of class, but also of other themes, such as bullying and drugs.
It was taken from the book Normal People – “the series of the lockdown” for England that he threw Mescal among the most sought-after actors of recent years (he is nominated for Oscars 2023 for the role in Aftersun – available on MUBI).
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