Colorful blurs leak the serene but twisted face of Maria Fernanda Candido, in the first seconds of “The Passion According to G. H.”. She soon finds her voice, starting a monologue that transforms 180 pages of paper into two hours of digital record.
Considered by many as an unfilmable example of Clarice Lispector’s collection, the book that serves as the basis for Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s film was published 60 years ago, but found ways to immerse itself in today’s movie theaters that are still very current.
These are essentially human questions that guide G.’s conversation H. com the viewer, after all. This is what Candido believes, who likes the theory of some scholars who say that the protagonist’s name is an abbreviation for “human gender”.