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‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles’ Love Letter To Brazil Is A Powerful Warning From History – Venice Film Festival
'I'm Still Here' review: Walter Salles' love letter to Brazil is a powerful warning from history – Venice Film Festival
As the title might suggest, Walter Salles ’s first dramatic feature in 12 years is ultimately a celebration of Brazil — not only of the resilience of its liberalism under tyrannical rulers, but of its sunlight, its carnival spirit and the delicious blue of the sea that rolls on to Rio de Janeiro’s broad beaches. Salles is superbly adept at slipping us hints — an oddly timed knock on the front door, a phone call Rubens leaves the room to answer — while also showing Eunice’s dawning recognition that her beloved husband had a life he kept secret, ostensibly for her own protection. The earlier story has the tension of a thriller, maintained at snapping point through the arrest, the occupation of the house by an armed guard and Eunice’s interrogation: a slow squeeze of terror, tightened imperceptibly by Salles over a gripping hour and a half.
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