The Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of a former Brazilian lawmaker who was abducted under Latin America’s longest ...
No family demonstrates this reality more clearly than the Paivas in “I’m Still Here,” titled “Ainda Estou Aqui” in Portuguese ...
Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a popular author in Brazil for four decades, has had intense days and exchanges since the movie based ...
Fernanda Torres delivers 'phenomenal' performance as mother whose life is shattered by violence in the Oscar-nominated drama ...
When Big Issue spoke to Walter Salles, celebrated Brazilian director of Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries and now I’m Still Here, his lead actress Fernanda ... is “disappeared” by military ...
His wife, Eunice (Fernanda Torres), faced danger, torture, and exile during her quest for the ... upon whose memoir “I’m Still Here” is based. For the first 40 minutes or so, we also get ...
Rubens is one of more than 450 people killed or disappeared during Brazil’s two-decade dictatorship. For Walter Salles, whose Oscar-nominated new film, I’m Still Here, is about the family ...
WE KNOW more than we’d like to about people being ‘disappeared’ in this part of the world, but Walter Salles‘s new reality-based drama I’m Still Here reminds us that families elsewhere ...
Few films have shown this with more delicate intelligence than I'm Still Here, a moving new drama set during Brazil's military ... and learns to fight for other people's rights as well.
History comes to the living room,” said the author Philip Roth, summing up the ideal of all historical fiction, which is to show how big events impact daily lives and real people. Roth was ...
While watching I’m Still Here, I wasn’t ... circle for Torres and her real-life mother Fernanda Montenegro, who plays Eunice in the final moments of the film, during the much later stage ...
And with darkly good timing, we have I’m Still Here ... from young childhood to 18. Change the context, and it could be a sitcom. In fact, director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries ...