André’s Passions: philosophical unfoldings of the doubles in Lavoura Arcaica

Abstract

The article provides a free reading of the film Lavoura Arcaica, directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho and adapted from the homonymous novel by Raduan Nassar. In this reading, brief dialogues are established with thinkers linked to modern philosophy – Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – as well as with authors who challenge the transition to contemporary philosophy – Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. This conversation takes care not to forget the priority of images (optical and sound) in the filmic reading, seeking to give vent to the theme of the double that runs through various facets of the feature film: voices as character and narrator, as staging and staged, shadows and light, word and silence, elevation and baseness, purity and filth, nature and religiosity, family law and corporeal love, text and image.