136 mins |
Rated
PG-13 (for thematic content, some strong language, drug use, smoking and brief nudity.)
Directed by Walter Salles
Starring Maeve Jinkings, Humberto Carrão, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello, Fernanda Torres, Maeve Jinkings, Humberto Carrão
WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE - 97th Academy Awards
Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
97th Academy Award Nominations:
Best Actress: Fernanda Torres
Best International Feature - Brazil
Best Picture
Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. We are
introduced to the Paivas: a father, Rubens, a mother, Eunice, and their five children. They live by the beach, in a rented house with doors constantly open to friends. The affection and humor they share among themselves are their own subtle forms of resistance to the oppression that hangs over the country. One day, they suffer a violent and arbitrary act that will forever change their lives. In the aftermath, Eunice is forced to reinvent herself and carve out a new future for herself and her children. The moving story of this family, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir, helped to reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
When I first read “I’m Still Here” by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I was deeply moved. For the first time, the story of the desaparecidos (the disappeared), the people snatched from their lives by the Brazilian dictatorship, was being told from the perspective of those left behind. In the experience of one woman – Eunice Paiva, a mother of five – there was both the story of how to live through loss and a mirror of the wound left on a nation. It was also personal: I knew this family and was friends with the Paiva children. Their house remains etched in my memory. During the seven years we spent creating I’M STILL HERE life in Brazil veered dangerously close to that past – which made it all the more urgent to tell this story. - Walter Salles
Walter Salles previously directed Fernanda Torres' mother, Fernanda Montenegro, in CENTRAL STATION (1998). Montenegro received an historic Best Actress nomination at the Oscars, the first for a Brazilian actor and the first for a Portuguese-language role, paving the way for her daughter.
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WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE - 97th Academy Awards
Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
97th Academy Award Nominations:
Best Actress: Fernanda Torres
Best International Feature - Brazil
Best Picture
Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. We are
introduced to the Paivas: a father, Rubens, a mother, Eunice, and their five children. They live by the beach, in a rented house with doors constantly open to friends. The affection and humor they share among themselves are their own subtle forms of resistance to the oppression that hangs over the country. One day, they suffer a violent and arbitrary act that will forever change their lives. In the aftermath, Eunice is forced to reinvent herself and carve out a new future for herself and her children. The moving story of this family, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir, helped to reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
When I first read “I’m Still Here” by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I was deeply moved. For the first time, the story of the desaparecidos (the disappeared), the people snatched from their lives by the Brazilian dictatorship, was being told from the perspective of those left behind. In the experience of one woman – Eunice Paiva, a mother of five – there was both the story of how to live through loss and a mirror of the wound left on a nation. It was also personal: I knew this family and was friends with the Paiva children. Their house remains etched in my memory. During the seven years we spent creating I’M STILL HERE life in Brazil veered dangerously close to that past – which made it all the more urgent to tell this story. - Walter Salles
Walter Salles previously directed Fernanda Torres' mother, Fernanda Montenegro, in CENTRAL STATION (1998). Montenegro received an historic Best Actress nomination at the Oscars, the first for a Brazilian actor and the first for a Portuguese-language role, paving the way for her daughter.
