The passion for paradox
The work of linguistic transposition is never a trivial task. Especially when we talk about Clarice Lispector, whose narratives put on stage, to a greater or lesser extent, the impossibility of the word expressing what is desired. Luiz Fernando Carvalho accepted the challenge and carried it out with his usual competence, taking upon himself the […]
‘The Passion According to G.H.’ brings the crushing weight of depersonalization
Film adapts with class the power of language in Lispector’s novel It is not necessary to develop much to say that Clarice Lispector’s writing is one of the most striking in Brazilian literature. The work of the writer from Pernambuco is one of the densest in contemporary national production, so subjective that it sometimes bumps […]
‘The Passion According to G.H.’ (Luiz Fernando Carvalho) – Filmadrid 2024
A sculptor with Greek countenances locked up in her flat in Rio de Janeiro confronts ‘that woman’, herself, with a violent critique of the human race in a monologue, from the book to the film of the same name, “Passion According to G.H.” (Luiz Fernando Carvalho). Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) published the romance in 1964 and […]
Maria Fernanda Cândido deconstructs herself to live ‘The Passion According to G.H.’
What is left when we leave all the masks? The essence. It is precisely the human essence and its own deconstruction that Maria Fernanda Cândido seeks in “The Passion According to G.H.”, a new film by Luiz Fernando Carvalho that arrives in Brazilian cinemas after a long period of gestation. The film is based on […]
‘The Passion According to G.H.’ | An extraordinary cinematic journey into the universe of Clarice Lispector
“The Passion According to G.H.”, timidly premiered in theaters at the hands of Nitrato Filmes, but you can’t miss it because it is one of the best Brazilian films of recent years, which combines cinema, in particular by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, with one of the greatest names in Brazilian literature of the twentieth century: Clarice […]
2024: The year G.H. became a palimpsest
Text, interpretation and image. Clarice Lispector was always running away from the obvious message.What he wrote and why he wrote it became the embryo of his meanings — meanings that are sought in his fictions, chronicles, interviews, theatrical and cinematographic adaptations. From her emblematic debut novel Near the Wild Heart (1943), which earned her comparisons […]
REVIEW | ‘PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H.’
“The Passion According to G.H.” is a deep journey into the labyrinth of Clarice Lispector’s existence, director Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s newest film adaptation is a fascinating film adaptation of Clarice Lispector’s renowned novel of the same name, bringing to the screen the fragmented mind and existential daydreams of the protagonist in a synesthetic and challenging […]
The metamorphosis of an existence
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 […]
Film: Bafici – ‘The Passion According to G.H.’
“Where the philosopher loses his breath, she [Lispector] continues, even further, beyond all knowledge.” Hélène Cixous “Every passion is a farewell ceremony and, at the same time, a rebirth.” » Luiz Fernando Carvalho Taking Clarice Lispector’s novel to the cinema or the theater is not easy and, however, she is one of the most visited […]
Review of ‘The Passion According to G.H.’
“Passion According to G.H.” (Brazil, 2023) is in the BAFICI international competition. Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s second feature film premiered at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival and was also screened at the São Paulo and Rotterdam Film Festivals. His distant debut film, Lavoura arcaica (To the Father’s Left, Brazil, 2001), received a special mention from […]