Maria Fernanda Cândido gives life to the crises of ‘The Passion According to G.H.’
The movie “The Passion According to G.H.” is better than the novel on which it is based. It is with clear images that director Luiz Fernando Carvalho gives materiality to Clarice Lispector’s opaque abstractions. The director is faithful to the writer’s murky and dull prose. Nor does it cheapen the plot, inventing lines or characters. […]
‘The Passion According to G.H.’ is a poetic delight with Maria Fernanda Cândido
The main actress is stupendous in the role of the white and privileged woman who goes through an epiphany, created by Clarice Lispector. A classic of literature turned into a movie. Scheduled to premiere on April 11, The Passion According to G.H. is pure poetry. Clarice Lispector’s work won its audiovisual version at the hands […]
The Passion According to G.H. builds Clarice on top of a century of “female cinema”
Maria Fernanda Cândido is a film power that takes on calculated myopia. With the passing of the decades and the expansion of the popular cult of her work (or at least the work attributed to her on social networks), Clarice Lispector has become a kind of “elemental woman” of Brazilian culture. Not that her difficult […]
‘The Passion According to G.H.’: director explains the scene in the film that is not in Clarice Lispector’s book and how he directed the actress
Literature has inspired director Luiz Fernando Carvalho since the beginning of his career. In his works for cinema and television, literary writing is a fundamental starting point, which has materialized in projects based on the works of Raduan Nassar (“Lavoura Arcaica”), Machado de Assis (“Capitu”), Graciliano Ramos (“Alexandre and Other Heroes”), Eça de Queiroz (“Os […]
The taste of the living and the brown lives in the movie “The Passion According to G.H.”
What do we do and think when we are “alone”, how to express this mental world populated by “vast emotions and imperfect thoughts”? How do experiences become a gush of words and speeches and these can become body, performance and images: cinema? G.H., Clarice Lispector’s character who takes the body and voice of Maria Fernanda […]
Passion according to Luiz Fernando Carvalho
Feature film based on a novel by Clarice Lispector captures the speech that seeks to give shape to the chaos of the narrator of ‘The Passion According to G.H.’ (…) (…) Carvalho’s feature film apprehends this disorganization that leads the protagonist to no longer know who she is and that is replicated in a disorganization […]
“The Passion According to G.H.” transforms an interior monologue of rarefied action into a film of great poetic force
The challenge that filmmaker Luiz Fernando Carvalho set himself seemed insurmountable. After all, how to transform the anguish and reflections of a woman, alone in a huge apartment and in front of the “corpse” of a cockroach, into a film that lasts more than two hours? Because the 63-year-old director from Rio de Janeiro, a […]
In the wild heart
At this point, even those who haven’t read The Passion According to G.H., by Clarice Lispector, knows what it’s about: the sculptor G.H., a beautiful woman from Rio elite, enters the room of the recently fired maid and experiences an upside-down epiphany when she comes across a cockroach. She dives herself into the wild heart […]
Epiphany in the maid’s room
In the bourgeois imaginary, the maid’s room is a territory of exclusion. Although it is part of the house or apartment, this substitute for the slave quarters is a place where the bosses rarely enter and care little about it. In architecture, it is equivalent to the myth that the maid is “part of the […]
IFFR ROTTERDAM 2024: The Passion according to G.H. by Luiz Fernando Carvalho
This is not the first time that Luiz Fernando Carvalho has tackled a work that needs to be adapted for the screen. With his first feature film, “To the Left of the Father” (Lavoura Arcaica, 2001), the Brazilian filmmaker recreated the universe of writer Raduan Nassar’s first novel, preserving the intent, a key element when […]