Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
A woman’s refusal to be victimised
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends a profound and moving political drama about the families of those ‘disappeared’ by the Brazilian dictatorship
Brazil
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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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