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Walter Salles Talks Joy At ‘I’m Still Here’ Box Office Success In Brazil: “Almost Every Single Screening Has Been Full … That Is An Incredible Gift” – Contenders International
Brazilian director Walter Salles talks about his moving political drama 'I’m Still Here' for Deadline's awards-season event Contenders International.
After a 12-year hiatus from fiction feature filmmaking, Brazilian director Walter Salles has been feeling the love at festivals and storming the box office at home with his moving political drama I’m Still Here. Salles has deep personal ties with the story as a friend of Paiva’s children, who frequented the family’s bohemian Rio de Janeiro beachfront home at the heart of the film, and then witnessed their struggle. The biggest prize for the Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries director Salles, however, has been the movie’s reception in Brazil, where it has taken the top slot at the box office over blockbusters Wicked and Gladiator II.
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