15, Oct — 2007

In the kingdom of Suassuna

  • Patricia Kogut

“Considered the founder of a language, an original artist, Carvalho bets on the artisanal creation in lieu of the industrial rhythm that usually characterizes the work on television. (…) The role of the protagonist, Quaderna, shall fall upon Irandhir Santos, young actor and professor of performing arts in Recife that never made TV works before.”

17, Dec — 2006

Sertão is the “seed” of “A Pedra do Reino”

  • Esther Hamburger

“Following the tracks of To the Left of the Father and Today is Maria’s Day, Carvalho is proposing visual innovative solutions based on literary texts adapted in partnership with Luís Alberto de Abreu.”

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1, May — 2007

The salvation of TV?

  • Cristiane Lisbôa

A Pedra do Reino “now is cinema, TV, beauty and – why not? – the zero milestone in a new manner of thinking and making television in the country.”

1, May — 2007

TV can teach indeed

  • Rogério Pacheco Jordão

Luiz Fernando Carvalho: “Education occurs by means of the position of a camera, emotion of a light, by means of the details of a costume, cutting of a fabric, texture, balance of colors, musicality of speeches, beauty of a text. This is all education.”

29, Nov — 2006

Mythical northeast and the kingdom of the essential stone

  • Flávia Guerra
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“The archeologist in charge of bringing to light this seminal work is the director Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”
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10, Jun — 2007

Brazilian hero

  • Claudia Amorim

“A Pedra do Reino, classic written by Ariano Suassuna – known for exalting the value of the Sertão’s culture – that was adapted to TV by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, a director concerned in showing the quality hidden in the inlands of the country and unhappy with the waste of talents that are kept away from the spotlights.”

6, Jun — 2007

By Ariano Suassuna (80)

  • Eliane Lobato

“I acknowledge this major recognition to medias such as cinema and television.  Luiz Fernando Carvalho introduced me to TV and all of I sudden I started to be recognized again as a writer.”

16, Dec — 2006

Her name is Mayana Neiva

  • Flávia Guerra
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“It is the dream of a lifetime to work with Luiz Fernando”, says the actress of 23 years old who moved to Sao Paolo to join the Workshop of Antunes Filho. (…) “The show will cause a major impact. We are going to rediscover Brazil.”

12, Jun — 2007

Today is Quaderna’s day

  • Luiz Carlos Merten
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“Luiz Fernando Carvalho: “Luchino Visconti is my master and there are two quotes for him in Stone.”

3, Jun — 2007

The meeting of a sertão’s hero

  • Claudia Sarmento e Simone Mousse
  • O Globo

“From Pernambuco, 28 years old, not known by the audience, Irandhir Santos is the protagonist of the miniseries directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, a daring project that deviates from the traditional standards of television drama.”

15, Oct — 2006

Arts and Logistics in A Pedra do Reino

  • Luciana Veras

“Miniseries production based on the works of Ariano Suassuna turns the city into a huge creation laboratory.”

7, Jun — 2007

It is television

  • Claudia Sarmento
  • O Globo

“On TV, the audience will watch a story that drifts away from the features of a classic television drama, without start, middle and end and with each episode functioning independent from each other. More than one hundred people lived for three months in Taperoá (…) to retell the story of Quaderna.”

9, Nov — 2006

The Unexplored Quadrant

  • Rose Esquenazi
  • Jornal do Brasil

“Production is part of the Quadrant project, which will be carried out twice a year in several states with the purpose of qualifying professionals in areas such as art direction, costume designer, scenography and interpretation.”

10, Jun — 2007

A lyrical caravan

  • Claudia Sarmento
  • O Globo

“The three artists from the Northeast, more than just being local talents not known in the axis Rio-Sao Paolo, have in common the fact they are debuting on TV.”

10, Jun — 2007

Carvalho promotes chaos on TV

  • Sylvia Colombo
  • Folha de S.Paulo

Luiz Fernando Carvalho: “My way of filming A Pedra do Reino does not diminish TV or exalt the cinema, but still it is not a slave of any artificial language. I want to be free of the industrial weight that turns all it touches into an anodyne reading of beings and life.”

9, Jun — 2007

Ariano, 80

  • Mànya Millen
  • O Globo

Special newspaper section Prosa e Verso (Prose and Verse) pays tribute to the 80 years of Ariano Suassuna and interviews the writer, texts from Patricia Kogut and Claudia Sarmento on the show, articles from José Castelo and screenwriter, Bráulio Tavares (author of book O ABC de Ariano).

11, Apr — 2007

Now is the time to affirm our identity

  • Bráulio Tavares
  • Jornal do Brasil

Ariano Suassuna: “I was felt I had an obligation with the Brazilian people. It may seem the people cared less about it…but I always had a big political and social concern.”

20, May — 2007

Ariano at 80

  • Cristina Maia
  • A Cidade

Ariano Suassuna: “If we are to follow the rules of reason, we will not move. Simply because it is normal for us to relax and accommodate, and if we have no dream to propel us up and away, we will not move (…) Dreaming is vital.”

1, Jun — 2007

Medieval spectacle on TV

  • Homero Fonseca
  • Continente Multicultural

“Luiz Fernando Carvalho is perhaps the most intellectually ambitious director on Brazilian TV. An experimenter and restless, he had the full support and trust of Ariano, whose previous works Uma Mulher Vestida de Sol (1994) and A Farsa da Boa Preguiça (1995) made to TV thanks to Carvalho.”

28, Oct — 2006

Rose of the Sertão

  • Patricia Kogut
  • O Globo

“Renata Rosa, rebec player, will become an actress in the show directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”

16, Oct — 2006

Preparation of actors is intense

  • Olivia Mindêlo
  • Jornal do Commercio

“For a whole month, the cast have lived a rigorous preparation process inside a warehouse previously used to store cotton. In this third and last day of reportage (…) we are going to emphasize how rehearsals, exercises, improvisations and even dance classes must will make a difference in the adaptation of Carvalho.”

16, Oct — 2006

I will hold myself to the between-the-lines

  • Olivia Mêndelo e Diana Moura Barbosa
  • Jornal do Commercio

Luiz Fernando Carvalho: “(A Pedra do Reino) concerns a vertiginous book, a sort of alchemical and fabulous vision of Brazil and men: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic.”

20, Jan — 2007

Today is Luciana’s day

  • Claudia Sarmento
  • O Globo

“In a house borrowed by the City Department of Health, in the isolated city of Taperoá, 22 individuals led by costume designer Luciana Buarque turn rustic fabric into dream clothes and can into jewels.”

16, Oct — 2006

The imaginary kingdom of Taperoá

  • Olivia Mindêlo
  • Jornal do Commercio

“Change of routine has happened by the power Globo has to change anything it touches, but mainly due to the philosophy of the director of the show, Luiz Fernando Carvalho, who decided to value the local talent and effort to execute its third adaptation to television of work based on Suassuna.”

24, Dec — 2006

Sertão on TV and in life

  • Jornal do Commercio

“Under the heating sun of Taperoá (Cariri, Paraíba), two individuals from Pernambuco donning a heavy medieval-regionalist piece in armorial aesthetic style seem to be completely comfortable.”

23, Oct — 2006

The new Taperoá

  • Luiz Joaquim
  • Folha de Pernambuco

“For four weeks, Taperoá not only observers but also joins the transformation underwent by the city”

10, Jun — 2007

Artisanal TV

  • Renato Gallo
  • O Estado de S.Paulo

“‘When I see this recreation Luiz is preparing, it even looks good enough, as if!’, says, joking, the writer  Ariano Suassuna in a visit to the filming of the show A Pedra do Reino. The author not only gave the approval to the director but also presented him 52 pages handwritten with new outcomes for some of the characters.”

23, Dec — 2006

House is going to shelter the work of Ariano Suassuna

  • Esdras Marchezan

“The Government of the State of Paraíba, Roberto Marinho Foundation and the City Hall signed yesterday a protocol of intentions ensuring the opening of the Ariano Suassuna Culture Center”

9, Jun — 2007

Enchanted Sertão

  • Marcio Rodrigo

Luiz Fernando Carvalho: “I created the Quadrant Project with the intention of fostering a new dramaturgy. (…) The Quadrant represents, more than just an isolated and solitary manner, an evolution in the way to produce and think, in artistic terms, the television.”

17, Oct — 2006

A politically correct production

  • Olivia Mindêlo
  • Jornal do Commercio

“The political of social insertion of the Quadrant Project, which is taking advantage of local talent to work on different cores and ateliers of the show, is one of the differentials of the initiative directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”

12, Nov — 2006

Education through senses

  • Soraya Belusi

“(The Quadrant) is a model of communication and education, where ethics and aesthetics walk together. I am proposing by means of adaptation of literary texts a reflection of the country”, says Luiz Fernando Carvalho.

25, Oct — 2006

News from Taperoá

  • Carlota Cafiero

“To call the new production of Carvalho a ‘work’ makes sense, mostly because he does not relate to TV in a commercial manner. The director gives a careful treatment to each detail of its creations, as we could see in the costumes, make-ups, scenarios, music, photography and performance.”

19, Aug — 2007

Carapuça? Cleverness? Humor? Anthropophagy?

  • Patricia Kogut
  • O Globo

“Luiz Fernando Carvalho was the idealizer of this release poster for the show in high-resolution digital cinema rooms. Luiz used adjectives such as ‘failure’ and ‘incomprehensible’ used by critics”

6, May — 2006

Art collector

  • Elizabeth Antunes
  • O Globo

“Art director of A Pedra do Reino, Raimundo Rodriguez told us not even garbage – his main raw material – he disputes with others. His garbage, which was turned into magnificent horses of Today is Maria’s Day, has to be exclusive.”

10, Jun — 2007

A Pedra do Reino reveals the enchanted universe of Ariano Suassuna

  • Carla Meneghini

“Look at this richness, our country is being wasted”, says director Luiz Fernando Carvalho at the inauguration this Sunday, in Rio de Janeiro, the mega-exhibition A Pedra do Reino, which reveals the filming backstage of the show”

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11, Jun — 2007

Ariano Suassuna is touched by the release of the show ‘A Pedra do Reino’

  • EGO

“Along with the show it was inaugurated an exhibition with the same name, revealing the creative process of the project directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”

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