Movies: Clarice Lispector

Xavier, a pharmacist, lives peacefully in bigamy with his two women, Carmen and Beatriz, but the harmony breaks down when they find he has another lover, Monique, a nightclub dancer....

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ri...

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. But the sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis....

The story of Cândida Raposo, an 81-year-old widow who still has a desire for pleasure, or the 'vertigo of living'....

An aspiring actress is hired to dub a recently deceased movie star in an upcoming erotic thriller. As the recording sessions go on, the voice actress finds herself slowly being influenced by the dead star’s presence....

Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken....

The film brings Clarice Lispector’s novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, Lóri is a lonely and melancholic woman. She divides her time between her duties as a school teacher and her relationships, which are ...

A rare interview of Clarice Lispector, from 1977, to Julio Lerner, TV Cultura reporter. After its recording, Clarice asked for the interview to be aired only after her passing. It went on air ten months later. Clarice died in December 1977, aged 57. ...

Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town....

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Lacerating Transmutation is an experimental work inspired by the novel The Passion According to G.H., originally written by Clarice Lispector....

Documentary essay made from several cuts of interviews with Clarice Lispector and her family and friends in a visual poetic seam of adapted excerpts from her work....

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Writer Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken....

Aspects of writer Clarice Lispector's personality and soul remembered on the occasion of her death in the testimony of friends. The testimonies are interspersed with excerpts from an interview that Clarice gave in life to a television station....

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