During the Rio Festival 2023
When the Ukrainian writer, naturalized Brazilian, Clarice Lispector launched her work “The Passion According to G.H.” in 1964, she would not have imagined that her story would be transposed to the cinema in such a poetic and ethereal way by filmmaker Luiz Fernando Carvalho, the most methodical, most aesthetic and who most transcends his own image. Nor that her main character was “possessed”, literally, by the actress Maria Fernanda Cândido. Yes. And there are still those who say that his books are easy to translate. No, they are not, on the contrary, seen the number of existentialist layers, which explicitly flirt with the possible absurd, with reality dismembered in surreal and believable ideas-thoughts (at the same time), with the fantasy that evokes the metaphor of life and its swarming symbols of our mental synapses. All this complexity is in the film version of “The Passion According to G.H.”, which takes the form almost ipsis litteris, due to the literalness of his words, his actions and his “trips” to a psychological-psychedelic.