My Brilliant Friend
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Immacolata, meanwhile, looksmucholder.
Worried about Immacolatas worsening health, Lenu starts seeing her frequently.
During one visit, she runs into Lila coming out of the apartment.
Get a house here, she orders, before walking down the stairs.
Its a twist of the knife: Immacolata feels prouder of Lila than she does of Lenu.
In front of her daughters, Lenu puts her foot down: She cant go.
Theres no one to stay with the girls.
When Lenu calls Lila at home, her friend has just arrived from work.
In the background, Enzo is setting the table and preparing dinner.
Lila replies with characteristic intensity: Your daughters mean more to me than my own kid.
She prefers to keep the pregnancy to herself while in America, relishing the secrecy.
She makes brief, scary eye contact with Nino, who doesnt come up.
For the first time in ages, Lila and Lenu seem happy to see each other.
It doesnt take Lila long to get real.
Also, Lenu needs to tell her daughters.
Would you like a little brother, or a little sister?
Lila asks Elsa who would be happy to have someone younger than her in the family.
She then turns to Dede, who catches on immediately.
Youre expecting a baby?
she asks her mother.
Lenu chuckles with relief.
Nino is jealous of the relatively healthy relationship that Lenu has maintained with the father of her children.
Lenu blurts out that shes pregnant.
From his ecstatic reaction, its impossible to know this mans plan.
To continue to just lie to everyone with no remorse?
More than that, to behappyabout his lies?
Bring one more kid into the world and pretend that he doesnt have a full second family?
However hesitantly, Lenu is asking herself the same questions.
She wonders at the terms of their arrangement, which Nino argues is necessary.
Out walking some time later, Lenu sees Nino with Eleonora and his two kids.
They dont see Lenu at first, but she doesnt let it slide.
Eleonora barks for them to go before she kills the slut, and Ninoshakes his headat Lenu.
I dont know how a person is supposed to put up with this, and neither does Lenu.
Nino asks Lenu to go home, claiming he is fed up with all these people.
What, truly, is the difference?
Lenu goes over to Elisas house to help with the baby.
As they change the baby, reports of an explosion in Bologna come on the television, entrancing Lenu.
Shes taken out of it when the phone rings.
Its PeppePepe, their brother: Immacolata needs an ambulance.
She cries that she doesnt want to go to the hospital, but Lenu takes her anyway.
The doctor tells them that Immacolata has cancer.
The clinical picture is unclear as of yet, but it looks pretty bad.
Lenu and her mother ride home in silence, the setting sun orange and bright in their eyes.
And after a while, he goes away.
Immacolatas obstinacy, so often antagonistic, is suddenly moving indeed, its the only way out.
