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Eunice Paiva: Martha, you gotta help me

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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.. Chosen by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema to compete for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars..

My husband is in danger!Martha: Everybody’s in danger, Eunice

Referenced in Close-Up: Why do We Need the Venice Film Festival? (2024).

Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with subtlety, without ever falling into excess or caricature

The Feast of the Holy King written by Leo Maia (and Marcio Leonardo) Brazilian film with the greatest international repercussion in recent years, winner of the best screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar, I'm Still Here dramatizes the trajectory of the Paiva family between the arrest of Rubens Paiva, the father, and Eunice's struggle after her husband's disappearance. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them an accomplice, making them care about the fate of each one, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters.

He manages to turn this particular story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world

Detailed scenography, lean script, natural interpretations, hand-picked soundtrack, precise editing, everything contributes to the director being able to convey exactly what he set out to do. As I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film is based, in addition to reports about it, my attention focused on the cinematographic solutions used by the director.

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