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 his baggage several successful productions on television and in cinema. And most of the works drink from a very diverse and relevant source: Brazilian literature, through authors such as Ariano Suassuna.
Passing through Recife, the filmmaker talked to the Giro column about the friendship he had with the author from Paraíba with a Pernambuco heart: “I was very good friends with Ariano Suassuna and I know the whole family to this day. I did several works for television inspired by his work, and with his collaboration, such as A Woman Dressed in the Sun (1994), The Farce of Good Laziness (1995) and The Stone of the Kingdom (2007). I was the one who launched Ariano on television when he was 70 years old”, he points out. “He was a very dear person.”