Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me
Plot
A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening of the military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. Selected by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars.
My husband is in danger!
Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Featured in Mais Você: Episode of 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 repercussion 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, the father, and Eunice’s struggle after the disappearance of her husband. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them complicit, making them care about the fate of each one, creating three-dimensional, real, credible characters.
Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with subtlety, without ever falling into excess or caricature
Detailed set design, weak script, natural interpretations, hand-picked soundtrack, precise editing, everything contributes to the fact that the director can convey exactly what he set out to do. As I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film is based, in addition to reports about it, my attention focused on the cinematographic solutions used by the director.