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A mother is forced to rediscover herself when her family’s life is destroyed by an act of arbitrary violence during the grip of the military dictatorship in Brazil in 1971. Paiva: Marta, you must help me. My husband is in danger! Marta: Everyone is in danger, Eunice. Featured on Mais Você: Episode dated December 3, 2024 (2024). A Festa do Santo Reis Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Interpreted by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the greatest international repercussions 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 between the arrest of Rubens Paiva’s father and Eunice’s struggle after her husband disappears. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family, making them partners, who care about each other’s fate, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres, a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, plays the role of her life with subtlety, never falling into excess or caricature. The detailed script, the thin script, the natural interpretations, the hand-picked soundtrack, the precise editing, everything contributes to the director being able to convey exactly what he needs to do. Knowing the story and having read the book on which the film is based, in addition to the reports about it, my attention was drawn to the cinematic solutions used by the director. He manages to transform it into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world.