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Fernanda Torres Is a Subtle Marvel in I’m Still Here
Walter Salles’s political drama looks at one family’s suffering during Brazil’s military dictatorship.
Their bustling home, constantly packed with visitors and friends, and their idyllic life, filled with long days at the beach and ice cream breaks and impromptu dance parties and soufflé dinners, serve as both a warm rebuke to and a bit of a bubble from the gathering darkness. When plainclothes military policemen arrive one day to take him in for a deposition, he goes quietly, confident he’ll be back soon; Eunice even offers lunch to the burly, severe men staying behind with them. The director has also spent enough time working in the U.S. (his much-maligned On the Road adaptation, I’d argue, is underrated, and many vigorously defend his 2005 Dark Water remake) that we may notice shades of Hollywood in some of the film’s easier resolutions.
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