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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is destroyed by arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of Brazil’s military dictatorship in 1971. The Brazilian Film Academy has selected Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Appears in Mais Você: Episode dated December 3, 2024 (2024). A Festa do Santo Reis Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Starring Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the greatest international acclaim 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 Rubens Paiva. father and Eunice’s struggle after her husband’s disappearance. Walter Salles draws the viewer into the intimacy of this family and makes him an accomplice who cares about the fate of each of them, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays her life role, an almost Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with delicacy, without 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 set out to do. Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film is based, and in addition to the reports about it, my attention was focused on the cinematographic solutions that the director used. He managed to transform this particular story into something universal, capable of communicating with an audience anywhere in the world.
