The Passion According to G.H. (film)

The Passion According to G.H. (Portuguese: A Paixão Segundo G.H.) is a Brazilian drama film directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, based on the novel of the same name by Clarice Lispector.[2][3] The film is going to be released by the end of 2020, in celebration for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the author Clarice Lispector.[4]

The Passion According to G.H.
Poster
PortugueseA Paixão Segundo G.H.
Directed byLuiz Fernando Carvalho
Produced byEleonora Granata-Jenkinson
Maria Clara Fernandez
Renata Rezende
Marcelo Maia
Written byMelina Dalboni
Luiz Fernando Carvalho
Based onA Paixão Segundo G.H. by Clarice Lispector
StarringMaria Fernanda Cândido
CinematographyPaulo Mancini
Mikeas
Production
company
Paris Filmes
Academia de Filmes
Luiz Fernando Carvalho
Release date
  • December 11, 2020 (2020-12-11)[1]
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

Plot

"The passion according to G.H." depicts the story of a woman who takes an existential dive after killing a cockroach in the maid's room. Identified only by the initials G.H., she dismisses the maid and decides to do general cleaning in the service room, which she supposes is filthy and full of uselessness. After recovering from the frustration of having found a clean and tidy room, G.H. comes across a cockroach on the closet door. After the fright, she overcomes the disgust for the insect so she can kill it and taste its white interior.

Narrated in the first person, it shows the process of loss of G.H's individuality. The next day she deals with her own impotence to describe the episode. The story is organized into chapters of systematic sequence - each begins with the same sentence that serves as a closure to the previous one. Thus, interruption is an element of continuity, in a symbolic representation of what G.H's experience is. Written in 1964, the novel is considered by the literary critics to be the most important work of the author Clarice Lispector.

Cast

Production

"The Passion According to G.H." is the second feature film by filmmaker Luiz Fernando Carvalho after the award-winning To the Left of the Father (Portuguese: Lavoura Arcaica) (2001), also a cinematographic version of a classic of Brazilian literature. It was during the editing of "Lavoura Arcaica" that Luiz Fernando Carvalho had contact with G.H. - the central novel of Clarice Lispector's work. Throughout his career, Luiz Fernando Carvalho directed several TV productions based on literature, such as Os Maias, by Eça de Queiroz (2001); Capitu, by Machado de Assis (2005); A Pedra do Reino, by Ariano Suassuna (2007); Dois Irmãos, by Milton Hatoum (2017); and the mini-series Correio Feminino (2013), inspired by chronicles written by Clarice Lispector in the 1950s and 1960s.

Filming

"The passion according to G.H." was filmed entirely in a penthouse of the neighborhood of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.

References
  1. https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/literatura,luiz-fernando-carvalho-e-a-paixao-segundo-gh-o-fluxo-de-uma-consciencia-necessaria,70003545371
  2. Guilherme Genestreti (28 November 2018). "Após Lavoura Arcaica, Luiz Fernando Carvalho adapta obra de Clarice". Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  3. Alessandro Giannini (6 December 2017). "Luiz Fernando Carvalho retoma carreira como diretor de cinema em SP". O Globo. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  4. Celia Musilli (11 January 2020). "Iluminações e Assombros Literários". Folha de Londrina. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. Alessandro Giannini (6 December 2017). "Maria Fernanda Cândido estará em versão para cinema de "A Paixão Segundo G.H."". O Globo. Retrieved 29 January 2020. "Tenho uma afinidade grande com o Luiz. Esse aprofundamento que ele propõe é fundamental para realizarmos e desenvolvermos um trabalho. Gosto de como ele leva tudo isso e como propõe o laboratório".
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