Fernanda Torres gives a complex, Oscar-nominated performance as Brazilian activist Eunice Paiva, whose search for her ...

Walter Salles ... during the dictatorship, but it was just a headline, we didn’t know any details. I first knew of Eunice Paiva as the mother of Marcelo. When Marcelo wrote I’m Still Here ...

Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres plays a real-life Brazilian activist keeping hope alive after her dissident husband ...

In I’m Still Here ... Court. A real coup d’etat. Some of the military that were involved in this coup plan were the very same right-wing people who were torturers during the ’70s.

Brazil has never won Best International Feature at the Oscars but Walter Salles, the director of this year's entry, I'm Still Here ... he befriended as a young teenager during the country's ...

I have a hard time actually analyzing it every time because I’m completely taken by it. So this is cinema at its highest point.” Watch Salles’ entire Criterion Closet visit below.

In crafting the story of “I’m Still Here,” which chronicles the forced disappearance of a husband and father during the military dictatorship in Brazil, filmmaker Walter Salles didn’t have ...

Directed by Walter Salles, I'm Still Here is the biggest ... for The Motorcycle Diaries; he also directed the Hollywood films Dark Water and On the Road. Based on the real-life story of a ...

They hadn’t. The story of “I’m Still Here,” based on a memoir by Marcelo Paiva, may be instigated by the sudden disappearance of Rubens. But director Walter Salles’ sensitive ...

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