I'm Still Here
OSCAR NOMINEE! OSCAR NOMINEE! Gracefully treading a tightrope between hope and anguish, I'M STILL HERE is a gripping, lyrical and deeply affeccting family drama!
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, I'M STILL HERE transports us to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s when Brazil’s dictatorship sought to exert its authority through detentions and disappearances. The latest from Walter Salles, director of the Oscar-nominated CENTRAL STATION and the Oscar-winning THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, focuses on life in the merrily crowded Paiva household, which is warm and jovial despite the threat of spot checks and arrests that loom over every outing. All this changes when patriarch Rubens (Selton Mello), a former congressman forced to live in exile during the previous decade, is ushered away to provide a mysterious deposition to military interrogators. Soon after, officers come for Eunice (a superb Fernanda Torres in her much-deserved Oscar-nominated performance), holding her in a windowless prison as they try to persuade her to incriminate friends and associates accused of leftwing activities. She emerges from prison transformed. Timely and galvanizing, this is an engrossing, deeply moving film about ordinary people who refuse to hide when the tempests of history come calling.DramaPT2H18MPG-132025-02-07Fernanda Torres
Selton Mello
Fernanda Montenegro
Walter Salles
Walter Salles
Rodrigo Teixeira
Maria Carlota Fernandes Bruno
Martine De Clermont-Tonnerre
Lili Nogueira
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