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Walter Salles On Brazil’s Oscar Submission ‘I’m Still Here’: “This Is A Film About Life”
Walter Salles on Brazil’s Oscar submission ‘I’m Still Here’: “This is a film about life”
Fernanda Torres plays Eunice, mother to Marcelo and his four siblings; her life is changed forever when her politically active, if not especially radical husband Rubens ( Selton Mello) is taken away for questioning after a visit by military police. Key to this is Torres as Eunice, a woman who refuses to be defined by grief or cowed by police intimidation, and her determination to keep her family together is especially inspirational in today’s uncertain world, where happiness is fast becoming an act of rebellion in itself. Fernanda played one of the main characters in what I consider to be my first film— Foreign Land, from 1995—and it’s a film that depicts the moment immediately after the re-democratization of Brazil [in 1985], when there was not only a chaotic political and economic situation that was the consequence of those 21 years of military dictatorship but also the chaos imposed by the first elected government after that.
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