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Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me
A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is upended by an act of arbitrary violence during the strict military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. Chosen by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Oscars..
My husband is in danger!
Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Featured in Mais Você: Episode of December 3, 2024 (2024).
Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with finesse, without ever falling into excess or caricature
The Banquet of the Holy King written by Leo Maia (and Marcio Leonardo) The most internationally acclaimed Brazilian film of 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 him an accomplice, making him worry about the fate of each one, creating three-dimensional, real, credible characters.
He manages to transform this particular story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world
Detailed scenography, lean script, natural performances, carefully chosen soundtrack, precise editing, everything contributes to the director being able to convey exactly what he set out to do. Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film is based, as well as reports on it, my attention was focused on the cinematographic solutions used by the director.
