The Passion According to G.H.

Based on the now-classic novel by Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. takes place in Rio de Janeiro in 1964. Having suffered the end of a love affair, G.H. (Maria Fernanda Cândido (The Secret Agent)), a sculptress from Copacabana’s artistic elite, decides to clean her apartment by herself after her maid has quit. In the maid’s former room, G.H. finds a cockroach that reveals her own horror of the world, a reflection of a society full of prejudice against those it treats as subordinate. As she faces the insect, she descends into an existential Via Crucis, losing her identity and questioning all conventions that imprison women to this day.

Followed by a Q&A with Luiz Fernando Carvalho and actress Maria Fernanda Cândido on Friday, March 13, and a Q&A with Carvalho on Saturday, March 14