1, Mar — 2016
Sertão is back to prime time
“The bow of Zezita to Luiz Fernando echoes the compliments accumulated in the career of the director, now 55 years old, a career made of television works known for their aesthetic exuberance and for the boldness to take to the screen adaptations of literary works from great writers, as seen in the miniseries Os Maias (Eça de Queiroz), Capitu (a reinvention of Dom Casmurro, written by Machado de Assis), Stone of the Kingdom (Ariano Suassuna) and Alexandre and Others Heroes, based on two short stories written by Graciliano Ramos, namely O Olho Torto de Alexandre (The Crooked Eye of Alexandre) and A Morte de Alexandre (The Death of Alexandre)”
1, Aug — 2016
Refinement at 9:00 pm
- Revista JP
31, Jan — 2016
‘The main function of television is to create citizens’
- Folha de S.Paulo
“Aesthetic function is the daughter of the ethical function. There is no beauty alone. (…) When TV takes this aesthetic role, it necessarily hold hands with it. The beauty, the good text, the good image, the good music are all founding elements of a country. And consequently are educational elements, but through emotion”, Luiz Fernando Carvalho
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14, Apr — 2016
Amarello visits: Luiz Fernando Carvalho
At each work he introduces a deeper Brazil, a country we often do not see, and he knows the national culture deeply and thus is licensed to perform such dive. Luiz puts body and soul in his works. He gives it all. He seeks fantasy in truth and truth in fantasy. He makes Brazilian art, and takes hold of the reach provided by TV to take it even farther. Because art, in truth, is to speak the truth.”
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14, Mar — 2016
Stanley Kubrick of the Brazilian TV, director Luiz Fernando Carvalho talks about the soap opera
- Ometele
“Their rivalry will develop from the 1960s up to the present day, under the guidance of a director often called ‘the Stanley Kubrick of the Brazilian TV’ due to his plastic rigor and his search to expand the borders of epic narratives: Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”
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13, Mar — 2016
Born to the Sertão
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“Luiz Fernando, says Benedito, is a director capable of uncovering elements from the text that not even authors are aware of. “I am always amazed seeing what he can do with my text. He has the power to improve every single text on the paper.”
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30, Nov — 2016
Aquarius, Velho Chico, Rita Lee and Montagner won APCA awards
- Folha de S.Paulo
“Actor Domingos Montagner (1962-2016), who died in September while swimming the waters of the São Francisco River, won the Great Critics Award for lifetime achievement. Velho Chico, his last work on TV, was awarded as best soap opera. Selma Egrei, who played the embittered Encarnação, won as best actress”
Leia Mais13, Mar — 2016
Benedito is back to prime time after an absence of 14 years
- Folha de S.Paulo
“Making a self-criticism to the last decade, we owe a balance between urban and deep Brazil. (…) In the words of Guimarães Rosa, Brazil is unspeakable. It has ethnical, aesthetic, cultural dimensions far beyond what the market wants”, says Luiz Fernando Carvalho.
Leia Mais25, Jul — 2016
It belongs to the big screen – Luiz Fernando Carvalho talks about the peculiar photography seen in Velho Chico
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“The theme is the cinema-style photography of Velho Chico. (…) even the most absent-minded viewer is aware that there is something special in the lights and texture found in the images of Velho Chico.”
Leia Mais13, Mar — 2016
Another picture of Brazil
- O Globo
“There are thousands of TV’s turned on in front of sofas where people fall asleep. I deal with the conscious, I believe in a sort of education through the senses”, Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”
Leia Mais28, Feb — 2016
Cast of Velho Chico has different experiences inside the Warehouse
- Folha de S.Paulo
“At the warehouse actors had classes such as prosody, dance, singing, among others, carried out by Carvalho and his team of preparers: Agnes Moço, Antônio Karnewale, Lucia Cordeiro and Tiche Vianna. There were also exercises with masks to work archetypes. (…) For more than a decade carrying out works this way, the director also sees in the process a struggle against what he defines as stagnation and repetition.”
Leia Mais10, Feb — 2016
Next night-time soap opera, Velho Chico deals with family traditions and ecology
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“He graduated as an architect but with deep knowledge of our literature, Carvalho became the harbinger of a peculiar and precious style.”
Leia Mais11, Mar — 2016
A Movie-like Soap Opera
- Diário Catarinense
“The work of Benedito perfectly matches the style of Luiz Fernando Carvalho (…) in the sense of having an exciting text with a differentiated aesthetic proposal, very ludic and lyrical”, Nilson Xavier.
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8, Mar — 1026
All I wanted was to see this country less abandoned
- O Dia
“I deal with the conscious, I believe in a sort of education through the senses I want to awaken”, Luiz Fernando Carvalho”
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7, Aug — 2016
Soundtrack of Velho Chico will have three records
- O Globo
“It is a rare occasion when you see so much money and work invested and, most of all, talent, as in the soundtrack heard in this story inspired by the São Francisco River. In addition to the songs no soap opera dismisses, there are incidental themes by chamber music or symphonic orchestra. The ones responsible for such refinement are: for selecting the songs, director Luiz Fernando Carvalho and for the original soundtrack, Tim Rescala.”
Leia Mais30, Sep — 2016
Director of Velho Chico prepares album as a gift to the staff
- O Globo
“Declaration opens Pequena Sanfona da Memória (Small Accordion of Memories), material that works as an album of memories and that will be distributed to the cast and technical staff of the soap opera Velho Chico”
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2, Apr — 2016
The mining that comes from memory
“Actress Camila Pitanga said the creative process proposed by the director cause her to abandon the automaton-like performance usually focused on results”
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21, Feb — 2016
Velho Chico will have 60% of the cast composed by Northeastern actors
- O Globo
“We want the people from the Northeast region to feel themselves represented in a poetic manner, Marina Nery.
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6, Mar — 2016
Unforgettable experience
- Jornal do Commercio
“We are making history, I am so glad to work with Luiz and to know that I would be part of this process”, Rodrigo Santoro
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2, May — 2016
Renato Góes
- O Globo
“In order to face the archetypes proposed by the Luiz Fernando Carvalho method of direction, he studied “The Power of Myth” (Joseph Campbell”
Leia Mais22, Mar — 2016
In Velho Chico, Carol Castro praises the creative process of Luiz Fernando Carvalho
- O Fluminense
“Benedito deserves to become a national heritage and Luiz can take from us qualities we don’t even know we have them. (…) To be directed by Luiz is like dancing with the invisible”, Carol Castro.”
Leia Mais8, Jun — 2016
What I learned watching Velho Chico
- Além do Visível
“Scenes are built in such a manner characters are surrounded by frames, attracting our attention by deviating from the obvious in the production of portraits. Another interesting aspect is to notice the variety of possibilities of building frames where the art direct can explore: blooming arches, windows, curtains, doors and boards.”
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