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Synopsis

Rio de Janeiro, 1964. After suffering the end of a love affair, G.H., a sculptress from Copacabana’s artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself, starting with the maid’s room. The day before, the maid had quit. In the room, G.H. faces a huge cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against beings it treats as subordinate. Facing the insect, G.H. descends into an existential Via Crucis. This experience leads to the loss of her identity and makes her question all conventions that imprison females to this day. Based on a novel by Clarice Lispector.

Director’s Vision

Director talks about aspects of his new film

The idea of the end, a diagnosis of the modern narrative in cinema, inaugurates in the character G.H. a new time, where time and space are out of themselves, outside laws and order, outside the field of the world, out of us. 

The experience of passion as a transgressive element makes the old structure of the character and the film itself unsustainable, transforming the narrative into a search for itself between shrapnel, silences, spins, getting out of oneself, and coming back to oneself.

The portrait of Mrs. G.H., drawn in charcoal by the maid Janair in her maid’s room exposes social fissures, moral verdicts, and ancestral civilizations. The flow advances through cinematic narrative genres, which evoke fragments that refer us to a cipher letter. A love letter? A farewell letter from the world? Every passion is a farewell ceremony and at the same time a rebirth.

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Awards

IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Harbour Session

BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina)

Grand Prize
Best Performance Award – Maria Fernanda Cândido

FILMADRID – International Film Festival (Spain)

Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – The Passion According to G.H.
Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – Maria Fernanda Cândido

São Paulo Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (France)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival in Bordeaux (France)

Hors Concours

IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Harbour Session

BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina)

Grand Prize
Best Performance Award – Maria Fernanda Cândido

FILMADRID – International Film Festival (Spain)

Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – The Passion According to G.H.
Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – Maria Fernanda Cândido

São Paulo Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (France)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival in Bordeaux (France)

Hors Concours

IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Harbour Session

BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina)

Grand Prize
Best Performance Award – Maria Fernanda Cândido

FILMADRID – International Film Festival (Spain)

Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – The Passion According to G.H.
Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – Maria Fernanda Cândido

São Paulo Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (France)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival in Bordeaux (France)

Hors Concours

IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Harbour Session

BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina)

Grand Prize
Best Performance Award – Maria Fernanda Cândido

FILMADRID – International Film Festival (Spain)

Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – The Passion According to G.H.
Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – Maria Fernanda Cândido

São Paulo Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (France)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival in Bordeaux (France)

Hors Concours

IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Harbour Session

BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina)

Grand Prize
Best Performance Award – Maria Fernanda Cândido

FILMADRID – International Film Festival (Spain)

Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – The Passion According to G.H.
Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – Maria Fernanda Cândido

São Paulo Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (France)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival in Bordeaux (France)

Hors Concours

IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Harbour Session

BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina)

Grand Prize
Best Performance Award – Maria Fernanda Cândido

FILMADRID – International Film Festival (Spain)

Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – The Passion According to G.H.
Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – Maria Fernanda Cândido

São Paulo Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (France)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival in Bordeaux (France)

Hors Concours

IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Harbour Session

BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Argentina)

Grand Prize
Best Performance Award – Maria Fernanda Cândido

FILMADRID – International Film Festival (Spain)

Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – The Passion According to G.H.
Special Mention Award from the Young Jury – Maria Fernanda Cândido

São Paulo Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival (Brazil)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival of Paris (France)

Hors Concours

Brazilian Film Festival in Bordeaux (France)

Hors Concours

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Critical Fortune

8, Feb — 2024

In this sensorial, inventive adaptation of Clarice Lispector, a sculptor faces a tortuous existential horror

  • Cristina Álvarez López
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam

In Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s A paixão segundo G.H., Clarice Lispector’s highly philosophical prose finds a cinematic rendering that surpasses all expectations. G.H. is a well-off Brazilian sculptor who, one day, encounters a cockroach in her maid’s closet. Following this incident, she descends into unknown regions of her being. The breakdown – a sort of madness, but also a passion in the religious sense – strips all masks, undoes her completely, and leads her to a new experience of life. The film combines the confessional, the experimental and the psychological to achieve an existential horror with echoes of Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965).

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Créditos

The Passion According to G.H. film by Luiz Fernando Carvalho based on the work of Clarice Lispector starring Maria Fernanda Cândido Introducing Samira Nancassa as Janair Screenplay Melina Dalboni, Luiz Fernando Carvalho Text supervision Nádia Battella Gotlib Director of Photography Paulo Mancini, Miqueias Lino Colorist Sérgio Pasqualino Júnior Art Direction João Irênio Costume Design Thanara Schönardie Scenography Mariana Villas-Bôas Sound Bruno Armeliin Assistant Director Kity Féo Characterization Eduardo Bellini Luigi Custódio Editing Marcio Hashimoto, edt Additional Editing Nina Galanternick, edt Sound Supervision Alan Zilli Mixing Eduardo Hamerschlak Post-Production Supervision Natália De Martini Executive Production Maria Clara Fernandez, Marcello Ludwig Maia, Renata Rezende, Mariana Marcondes Associate Producer Eleonora Granata-Jenkinson Produced by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Paulo Roberto Schmidt, Marcio Fraccaroli, Veronica Stumpf Directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho