The Passion According to G.H. (film)

The Passion According to G.H. (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. The film was expected to be released by the end of 2020, in celebration for Lispector's 100th anniversary, before being delayed. The film was released in Brazilian theatres on April 11, 2024.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Maria Fernanda Cândido – G.H.

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 (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.