NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the return of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music to the repertoire of this years’ Three Choirs Festival

I’m Still Here (15)
Directed by Walter Salles
THE story of Brazil’s “desaparecidos,” those taken by the military dictatorship, is seen through the eyes of those left behind and in particular a bourgeois wife and mother of five in Walter Salles quietly profound and moving Oscar-nominated drama based on real events.
It is driven by a remarkable and tour-de-force performance by renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva whose life was shattered when her husband Rubens (Selton Mello), a dissident and former congressman, was snatched from his home in 1971.
Seven years in the making, it is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir and it is a very personal film as Salles knew the Paiva family and was friends with the children when he was 13.

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