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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is torn apart by random violence during the brutal violence of Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971. Selected by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Film.
My husband is in danger!
Eunice Paiva: Marta, you have to help me. Marta: Everyone is in danger, Eunice..
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A Festa do Santo Reis, written by Leo Maija (starring Marcio Leonardo), performed by Tim Maija. The Brazilian film with the greatest international resonance in recent years, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar, I’m Still Here dramatizes the trajectory of the Paiva family between the arrest of Ruben Paiva, the father, and Eunice’s struggle after the disappearance of her husband.
Detailed scenography, simple script, natural interpretations, hand-picked soundtrack, precise editing contribute to the director conveying exactly what he intended
Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them complicit, making them care about the fate of each one, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of the Greek heroine, whose life is almost marked by tragedy with finesse, without falling into excess or caricature.
He manages to turn this particular story into something universal that can connect with audiences anywhere in the world
Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film is based, in addition to the reports about it, my attention was drawn to the cinematographic decisions used by the director.