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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an arbitrary act of violence during the tightening of Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971. It was chosen by the Brazilian Film Academy in the category of best international film. at the 2025 Oscars… Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice. Appeared in Mais Você: episode of December 3, 2024 (2024). Festa do Santo Reis Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Starring Tim Maia. The Brazilian film that has provoked the greatest international response in recent years, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival and also nominated for an Oscar, I’m Still Here dramatizes the trajectory of the Paiva family after the arrest of. Rubens Paiva, the father and Eunice’s struggle after the disappearance of her husband. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family, makes them accomplices, cares about their fate, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, delicately, without being exaggerated or caricatured. Detailed set design, a subtle script, natural performances, hand-selected soundtrack, precise editing, everything contributes to the fact that the director is able to convey exactly what he decided. Since I was familiar with the story, I read the book on which the film is based, in addition to the reports about it, my attention was focused on the cinematic solutions used by the director. He manages to make this story something universal, which can communicate with audiences anywhere in the world.
