Based on the real-life 1971 disappearance of Brazilian Congressman Rubens Paiva, the movie, directed by Walter Salles, is a profile of one family's resolve.
During a post-screening Q&A, "I'm Still Here" director Walter Salles and star Fernanda Torres talk about the relevance of their film to the past and future of Brazil.
Walter Salles 'I'm Still Here' opens in limited release at the indie film box office after a heady run since star Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress.
Both Torres and Salles are in the mix for Oscar nominations for best actress and best international film this year.
The Brazilan actress pulled off a surprise Golden Globe best actress win for her role in Walter Salles' true-life drama, playing a mother of five who reinvents herself after her husband is "disappeared" by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 1970s.
In Walter Salles' Oscar-shortlisted film I'm Still Here, set in 1970 at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship, Fernanda Torres plays an extraordinary mother: Eunice Paiva, who was left to raise five children alone after the disappearance of her activist husband Rubens (played by Selton Mello).
Political resistance in movies often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising. But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes in the shape of a defiant smile.
Playing the wife of a disappeared political prisoner, Torres exhibits the ways mothers must carry on after tragedy
Selton Mello and Fernanda Torres have known each other for decades. Mello had a guest arc on Torres' Brazilian show "Normal People," which ran from 2001-2003, before achieving massive fame as both an actor and filmmaker.
In movies, political resistance often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising. But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes
But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes in the shape of a defiant smile. The film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian ...
But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes in the shape of a defiant smile. The film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian ...