NoORMAL PEOPLE
Type: bildungsroman
Director: Lenny Abrahamson. With Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sarah Green, Aislin McGuckin
Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in “Normal People”
In the process of acquiring foreign serial content to be made available on RaiPlay, the public service has recently released the Irish Normal Peopleadaptation of the Sally Rooney novel of the same name.
The series is interesting for several reasons: it is the first of a new course of seriality across the Channel inspired by romantic comedy, made up of long silences and tormented love stories.
Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in “Normal People”
And then it is a tribute to Italywith some episodes set in the elegant residences of the Lazio countryside on the border with Tuscany, an element that relaunches the national imagination on a global scale.
It tells the story of friendship, affinity and feeling between Connell (Paul Mescal), brilliant student and Gaelic football player, and Matrianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a wealthy girl devoted to study and detested by the rest of the school.
A scene from the TV series “Normal People”
The two begin dating, to support each other in the difficult generational transition which will lead them to enroll at Trinity College Dublin. Among long shots on Irish landscapes, introspection on the profile of the protagonists, anxieties and fears of a passing age, Normal People takes on all the features of the classic bildungsroman.
For those who love youthful sentimental stories and the difficulties of becoming adults.
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