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 A la izquierda del padre / Lavoura Arcaica (2001) – who was also in charge of the transposition together with Melina Dalboni for a film that had its world premiere last January during the Rotterdam Festival.
GH (the magnetic Maria Fernanda Cândido, omnipresent in practically all shots) is a sculptor of the elitist Rio de Janeiro bourgeoisie of 1964 who lives in an apartment in Copacabana overlooking the sea. And it is precisely Cândido who carries on his shoulder (or rather takes over with his face and his voice) what is basically a long interior monologue in a kind of video-diary (shot in 35mm) in which he expresses his contradictions, his desires (the stylized narration has an erotic and seductive tone at several moments) and his anguish.