Luiz Fernando Carvalho (born July 28, 1960, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter, known for works closely linked to literature that constitute a renovation in Brazilian audiovisual aesthetics. He has already brought to the screen works by Ariano Suassuna, Raduan Nassar, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector, Milton Hatoum, José Lins do Rego, and Graciliano Ramos, among others. Some critics compare Luiz Fernando Carvalho's p…