Sunday 11 October

Brazil/France 2024 2h 17m cert.15

Director: Walter Salles 

Stars: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello

Portugese & French with English subtitiles

Brazil 1971: Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. I'm Still Here is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.  

"Biopics are rarely to my taste but the power of this film overcame my prejudice. Perhaps ignorance of Eunice’s story – already well-known in Brazil – helped dispel any sense of the pre-ordained. But in any case, given Torres’s brilliant, understated performance and Salles’s deep understanding of what he’s trying to achieve, the film would stand as a shining, thoroughly convincing exception.”  "  

Nick James Sight & Sound

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