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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family life is shattered by arbitrary violence in 1971, as Brazil’s military dictatorship tightens its grip. Selected by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Feature Film. At the 2025 Oscars. Eunice Paiva: Marta, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Marta: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Presented by Mais Você: December 3, 2024. episode (2024). A Festa do Santo ReisWritten by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo)Performed by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film that has received the greatest international response in recent years, awarded Best Screenplay 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 immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them an accomplice, forcing them to care about each person’s fate, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with subtlety, never falling into excess or caricature. The detailed set design, the lean script, the natural interpretations, the hand-picked soundtrack, the precise editing – everything contributes to the director being able to convey exactly what he set out to do. Since I knew the story, the book on which the film is based, I had read it, in addition to reporting on it, the focus is on the cinematographic decisions used by the director. He manages to turn this specific story into something universal, capable of communicating with an audience anywhere in the world.
