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Eunice Paiva: Marta, you must help me
Story
A mother is forced to rethink herself when her family’s life is destroyed by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening of the military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. Selected by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars..
My husband is in danger!
Marta: Everything is in danger, Eunice.. Shown in Mais Você: Episode from December 3, 2024 (2024).
A Festa do Santo Reis Screenplay: Leo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Performed by Tim Maia
The Brazilian film with the greatest international resonance 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 accomplices, forcing them to care about the fate of each of them, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters.
Fernando Torres plays the role of her life, an almost Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with subtlety, never falling into excess or caricature
Detailed scenography, a sparse script, natural interpretations, a hand-picked soundtrack, precise editing, all contribute to the fact that the director can convey exactly what he intended to do. Since I knew the story, read the book on which the film was based, as well as reports about it, my attention was focused on the cinematic solutions used by the director.
