Synopsis
Director’s Vision
By Luiz Fernando Carvalho (2007)Writer's Vision
By Ariano Suassuna (2008)
Writer's Creative Process
By Ariano Suassuna
Actor's Vision
By Irandhir Santos (2007)Cast Preparation
Videos
Soundtrack
The miniseries A Pedra do Reino features two albums mixing regional, Iberian, Arabian, Indian, gypsy and indigenous styles. One of them is a double disc, only with instrumental tracks composed by Marco Antônio Guimarães, member of the band Uakti, and Antônio Madureira, musical pupil of the armorial aesthetics founded by Ariano Suassuna and conductor and arranger of Quinteto Armorial e Romançal, which take part and interpret the songs of the show.
The second album presents the musical research of Luiz Fernando Carvalho, which was edited by the director himself in order to reveal the path of the sound research. The record includes songs from regional artists, some of them members of the cast, such as Renata Rosa, Siba and Mestre Salustiano.
Disco 1
1 – Quaderna (tema de abertura)
2 – Canto Gregoriano
3 – SER-Tão
4 – Taperoá
5 – Maria Safira
6 – Colibrí
7 – Circorama
8 – Phantasmagoria
9 – Transfigurada
10 – Medieval
11 – Onça Caetana
12 – Pedra do Reino
13 – Viginal
14 – Catituo com Cascavel
15 – Silvestre
Disco 2
1 – Revoada – Quinteto Armorial
2 – Romance da Bela Infanta – Quinteto Amorial
3 – Mourão – Quinteto Armorial
4 – Ponteio Acutilado – Quinteto Armorial
5 – Toré – Quinteto Armorial
6 – Rasga – Quinteto Armorial
7 – Toque dos Caboclinhos – Quinteto Armorial
8 – Entremeio para uma rabeca e percussão – Quinteto Armorial
9 – Lancinante – Quinteto Armorial
10 – Xincuan – Quinteto Armorial
11 – Cantiga – Quinteto Armorial
12 – Toque dos Encantados – Quinteto Armorial
13 – Toque dos Degradados – Quinteto Armorial
14 – Toque dos Orixás – Quarteto Ramançal
The album that introduces the musical research of director Luiz Fernando Carvalho has in its cover the picture of the matrix from a xylograph by artist J. Borges, given by him to Luiz Fernando Carvalho during a visit of the director to the atelier – the carving also inspired the design of the series opening as well as the DVD material. The CD also includes the following statement from the director: “A sort of compilation that is very particular and that, in a way, rules my own finding that the reading made on the Northeast region gas been full of clichés. This small set reveals musical manifestations that marked me from the time of research for A Pedra do Reino up to the meeting with local musicians – which, to my joy, brilliantly joined me as actors.”
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Awards
DVD
Books
A Pedra do Reino – Filming Books
- Editora Globo
Organized as six booklets packed in an illustrated case, five of them as facsimiles of scripts from director Luiz Fernando Carvalho, full of notes, drawings and comments. The sixth booklet contains the diaries of the director, cast and staff that reveal the creation process of the miniseries and reproduces part of the manuscripts of Ariano Suassuna who, excited with the shooting of the adaptation to TV, resumed his work published in 1971 and created new outcomes for some of the characters.
Quadrant Project
The catalogue presents the Quadrant Project, idealized by director Luiz Fernando Carvalho and inaugurated along with the A Pedra do Reino. The multiplatform project is intended to rediscover the Brazilian imaginary, travelling across the country by means of texts from the Literature of different regions of the country, where they would be filmed. The main goals of this proposal are education and qualification of the viewer and the discovery and valuation of regional talents, as most of the cast and technical staff were invited from the own shooting site – exactly as A Pedra do Reino was performed. Other works that integrate the project are Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis, which originated the miniseries Capitu (2008); Corpo Presente, by João Paulo Cuenca, and Dois Irmãos, by Milton Hatoum, aired in 2017.
Critical Fortune
17, Jun — 2007
A Pedra do Reino and the ineffable quality
- Folha de S.Paulo
“Beyond all references and crossovers, Luiz Fernando Carvalho establishes himself as an original director, capable of creating images of enormous beauty and of making viewers to leave their comfort zone and safety.”
Leia Mais—
A Pedra do Reino: Opera mundi of Luiz Fernando Carvalho
- Cinética
“The three instances that form the A Pedra do Reino (the armorial shape of the romance, the epic desire and the “regal style” of Quaderna and the hybrid language, as well as armorial, baroque and regal of the show) are combined in an absolute coherence, as if the opera mundi of Luiz Fernando Carvalho led to the limit of radicalism the aesthetic project proposed and developed by Ariano Suassuna.”
Leia Mais
10, Jun — 2007
Sertão’s opera
- Folha de S.Paulo
“The texture of the work results in an exchange of repertoires between local artists and artisans and professionals from the big city. This multiple interlocution, under the searing heat of the northeast sertão, exudes and gives strength to the final product. The complex interaction caused a profusion of strong emotions that are translated to the screen.”
Leia Mais6, Jun — 2007
Triumph of the imagination
- IG
“A Pedra do Reino follows the same logic of dreams, with visual deliriums of intense brightness and time ellipsis, with spatial disorientations and suspended senses – which leads to an enthralling and imperfect result, but never dull or trivial.”
Leia Mais
17, Jun — 2007
Spectacle to the eyes
- Jornal do Brasil
24, Aug — 2007
The second life of Pedro Quaderna
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“Carvalho is an author like no other. It is very common of critics to say his work to TV is cinematographic. People say that as a compliment, but Carvalho will never fall for that. He is not sure if A Pedra do Reino is television, cinema, theater, opera or even literature, as its origin is an admirably written text.”
Leia Mais
12, Jun — 2007
A Pedra do Reino leads to the discussion about the real Brazil
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“To smarten up in necessary. Luiz Fernando Carvalho proposes more than just a baroque spectacle for eyes and ears. There is a consistent political discussion in A Pedra do Reino in which the fictitious Brazil of Ariano Suassuna has everything to do with the real Brazil.”
Leia Mais
19, Jun — 2007
Huh?
- Folha de S.Paulo
“Despite the hype of the critics, the show A Pedra do Reino was considered a flop and caused reactions about its hermeticism.”
Leia Mais
11, Jun — 2007
Holy water in the saliva
- Jornal do Brasil
“Religious metaphors are spread across the entire work of Suassuna. These and others. But what really attracts our attention in this A Pedra do Reino directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho is how liturgy is the center of actions. Suassuna by Carvalho is yelling. And it yells because the center of the director’s work is the word. More than that, the religious cult worshipping the word.”
16, Jun — 2007
Art under the redeeming effect of the word
- O Globo
“Quaderna made noise, confirming the thesis defended by Suassuna in the spectacle-class he presented, last Sunday, in the Municipal Theater: ‘The dog enjoys the bone only because he never tasted a steak before. Offer culture to the people to see if they are going to refuse it’. (…) His performance (Jackson Costa) synthetizes the project of Carvalho: the denial of the obvious. The steak in the place of the bone.”
Leia MaisPress
Principais notícias
15, Oct — 2007
In the kingdom of Suassuna
“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”
“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.”
Leia Mais
29, Nov — 2006
Mythical northeast and the kingdom of the essential stone
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“The archeologist in charge of bringing to light this seminal work is the director Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”
Leia Mais
10, Jun — 2007
Brazilian hero
“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.”
7, Jun — 2007
It is television
- O Globo
10, Jun — 2007
Carvalho promotes chaos on TV
- Folha de S.Paulo
9, Jun — 2007
Ariano, 80
- O Globo
1, Jun — 2007
Medieval spectacle on TV
- Continente Multicultural
16, Oct — 2006
Preparation of actors is intense
- 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
The imaginary kingdom of Taperoá
- Jornal do Commercio
10, Jun — 2007
Artisanal TV
- 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.”
17, Oct — 2006
A politically correct production
- Jornal do Commercio
