Luiz Fernando Carvalho and Maria Fernanda Cândido provoke a “Clarice Lispector ‘s enthrallment” through spoken word.
Creating a film version of “A Paixão Segundo G.H.” by Clarice Lispector could be a disaster, like a punishment to the nastiest sinner in Dante’s hell.
After all, this is one of the most reflective and with less imagery romances in the history of Brazilian literature—an unmatched deep dive into a white, wealthy, privileged woman’s mind who finds out in an incident as she faces a dead cockroach, a life impulse that is familiar to her and to everything that lives and breathes.