Unreleased film highlights the maid in a work by Clarice Lispector
The pandemic prevented the biggest surprise among the tributes to Clarice Lispector’s centenary from premiering this year: the feature film “A Paixão Segundo G.H.”, based on the writer’s novel of the same name, written by filmmaker Luiz Fernando Carvalho. Clarice was born on December 10, 1920, and published “The Passion According to G.H.” in 1964. […]
Interview with Luiz Fernando Carvalho and Maria Fernanda Cândido (The Passion According to GH)
“I work directly on literature, I make an incursion of the lens into the book” Andrés and Nacho: Despite adapting the structure of the original story, you decided to keep the first line. How important was this in the film? How did you construct the rest of the script? Luiz Fernando Carvalho: There isn’t exactly […]
The winners of BAFICI, in its most turbulent edition
The awards were announced and will be presented this Saturday night. There was a tie in the Grand Prix. Bafici reaches its most turbulent end, with a tie for the top prize between the Brazilian film A paixão segundo GH, by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, and the Argentine co-production El placer es mío, by Sacha Amaral. […]
Diving into Clarice’s Fascination
Luiz Fernando Carvalho returns to the cinema with a challenging adaptation of The Passion According to GH, a book that completes 60 years of release More than two decades separate the two incursions of Luiz Fernando Carvalho, one of the most important names in Brazilian television dramaturgy, in fictional feature films for cinema. It has […]
Luiz Fernando Carvalho talks about his literary DNA while passing through Recife
Artistic making is something very subjective. Therefore, it is not possible to describe in words what the concept of the person who makes art really means. But one thing every artist should have: a differential, a brand. This is how we arrived at director Luiz Fernando Carvalho. This 63-year-old from Rio de Janeiro carries in […]
Brazilian, Argentinian and Dutch films won the most important awards in the international competitions of Bafici 2024
The awards were announced after a 12-day competition, during which more than 280 films were screened and almost 500 screenings were made at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, which celebrates its silver anniversary this year. The Brazilian film A paixao segundo GH, by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, and the Argentine film El placer es […]
An edition marked by the conjuncture – The end of the 25th Bafici, between awards and tensions
(…) Thus, the second feature film by Brazilian Luiz Fernando Carvalho and the debut feature by his compatriot Sacha Amaral share the podium with two main awards. In the case of this last film, El placer es mío, it is a mostly Argentine production (Amaral has lived in our country for many years), and it […]
Especial Cine Latinoamericano: críticas de “A paixão segundo GH”, de Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Competencia Internacional); y “La mujer salvaje”, de Alán González (Vanguardia y Género) – #BAFICI2024
Reviews of two productions from our region that have the female protagonists as their main findings. If there are “unfilmable” novels, one of them is this one published in 1964 by the Ukrainian-Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. That mattered little to Luiz Fernando Carvalho – a historian of soap operas and director of the multi-award-winning film […]
Maria Fernanda Cândido talks about the transformative experience of starring in ‘The Passion According to G.H.’: ‘It is a work that questions absolutely everything. There’s nothing left’
In an interview with GLOBO, the actress tells about her work on the adaptation of Clarice Lispector’s classic considered ‘unfilmable’, in addition to the fear of cockroaches. Understanding Clarice Lispector, according to her own statement, “is not a matter of intelligence, but of feeling”. She was talking about a Portuguese teacher at Colégio Pedro II […]
‘Extremely contemporary’, says director of ‘The Passion According to G.H’; watch the interview
Clarice Lispector’s acclaimed text The Passion According to G.H.. gets a film version, directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho The encounter between an inspiring blank canvas, a powerful book in the variety of reentrant words, and even the impactful plasticity of an inspiring actress muse: Maria Fernanda Cândido — all this moved director Luiz Fernando Carvalho […]