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BRIAN VINER reviews I'm Still Here: Chilling reality behind the glitz of Pele's Brazil

BRIAN VINER: I'm Still Here tells the true story of the affluent, middle-class Paiva family whose comfortable life was ripped apart following that sound in all totalitarian countries: the knock on the door.

Now, for those of us of a certain age who love sport, Brazil 1970 evokes only one thing: the extravagantly gifted football team that won the World Cup in Mexico that summer, inspired by magical players – above all, Pele – whose names still resound across the decades. It tells the true story of the affluent, middle-class Paiva family (whom Salles knew, growing up in Rio), whose comfortable life was ripped apart following that ominous sound in all totalitarian countries: the knock on the door. Another absorbing documentary, I Am Martin Parr sheds light on the work of one of our finest photographers, whose unerring eye for both the banalities and peculiarities of everyday British life has yielded a cherishable pictorial record of the past 50 years.

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