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 restless creator prone to facing immense challenges, managed to transform “The Passion According to G.H.”, a novel that Clarice Lispector published in 1964, into an original, engaging film of immense poetic force.
To achieve such a good result, the filmmaker had the complicity of his protagonist, actress Maria Fernanda Cândido. Owner of singular beauty, the interpreter of G.H. shows that Carvalho hit the nail on the head when he invited her, 22 years ago, for the role. At that time, Maria was just a woman of rare beauty, who established herself as an actress in the soap opera “Esperança”.