A hora da estrela and its adaptations

Cinema, television and literature between realism and reflexivity

Abstract

Starting from Rodrigo S.M.'s reflections in the novel A Hora da Estrela, by Clarice Lispector, the article aims to discuss some of the narrative options in two audiovisual adaptations of the literary work. In the first work, the homonymous film A Hora da Estrela, from 1985, director Suzana Amaral chooses to focus only on the story of Macabéa, leaving out the elocobracoes of a guilty narrator. In a second moment, the 2003 Cena Aberta television program, by director and screenwriter Jorge Furtado, adjusts its focus precisely to the problem of speaking for the other class. Our initial hypothesis suggests a difficulty for cinema to deprive the traditional intellectual of his power to narrate, in the case of Suzana Amaral's film. But it also points to the loss of the former shock power that metalanguage proposed. This same metalanguage is the first invoice instrument used by Jorge Furtado in the adaptation of Lispector for the TV Globo program.