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A mother is forced to rediscover herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the harsh grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil in 1971.. Selected by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars.. Eunice Paiva: Marta, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Marta: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Featured on Mais Você: Episode dated December 3, 2024 (2024). A Festa do Santo Reis Written by Leo Maya (as Mario Leonardo) Played by Tim Maya. One of the Brazilian films with the greatest international impact in recent years, I’m Still Here, which won the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar, dramatically depicts the trajectory of the Paiva family between the arrest of the father, Rubens Paiva, and the struggle of Eunice after the disappearance of her husband. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them partners, making them care about the fate of each of them, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres, a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, plays the role of her life with subtlety, never falling into excess or caricature. The detailed scenography, the lean script, the natural interpretations, the hand-picked soundtrack, the precise editing, all contribute to the director being able to convey exactly what he intended to do. As I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film was based, and in addition to the reports about it, my attention was drawn to the cinematic solutions the director uses. He manages to make this particular story something universal that can communicate with audiences anywhere in the world.
