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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 grip of Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971. Selected by the Brazilian Film Academy in the Best International Film category. at the 2025 Academy Awards… Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice. Appeared in the episode Mais Você: December 3, 2024 (2024). Feast of the Holy King Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Performed by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film that has generated 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 journey of the Paiva family from the arrest of Rubens Paiva, to the struggle of the father and Eunice after her husband’s disappearance. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family, makes them complicit, cares about their fate, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of a lifetime, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, delicately, without falling into exaggeration or caricature. Detailed scenography, slim script, natural interpretations, hand-picked soundtrack, precise editing, everything contributes to the director being able to convey exactly what he set out to do. Since I knew the story, having read the book on which the film is based, in addition to the reports about it, my attention was focused on the cinematographic solutions used by the director. He manages to turn this story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world.
