I'm Still Here (15)

★★★★ From The Motorcycle Diaries to On the Road, Walter Salles is a great celebrator of liberation, both personal and political. The two come together in stirring and poignant ways here. You can feel the shadow of a contemporary Brazilian leader, Jair Bolsonaro, hanging over it. ~ Time Out.

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Nominated for 3 Academy Awards - Best Picture, Best Actress (Fernanda Torres) and Best International Feature Film.

Directed by BAFTA winner Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station, On the Road) and starring Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro, Ainda Estou Aqui is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.

BRAZIL, 1971. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.

★★★★★ This is one of the greatest movies about motherhood. Walter Salles’s drama about a woman searching for her missing husband is rightfully nominated for three Oscars, including best actress for its extraordinary lead performance. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ Fernanda Torres is remarkable in Walter Salles’s superb drama set in 1970s Brazil. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ This sensational true-life tale from director Walter Salles depicts the abduction of a congressman in military-occupied Brazil in 1970 – and fully deserves its three Oscar nods. ~ The Independent.

★★★★★ The gut-wrenching story of Eunice Paiva and her family from the dark days of Brazilian dictatorship is a triumph of humanity. ~ Evening Standard.

★★★★ An elegant drama that blends the political and the personal. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated film chronicles the abduction of Rubens Paiva and its aftermath during Brazil’s dictatorship. ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ One remarkable, happy family resists Brazil’s dictatorship in this powerful drama. ~ Sunday Times.

★★★★ Fernanda Torres is mesmerising in this masterful Oscars hopeful.
Walter Selles’ poignant, pensive film about life under dictatorship stars Torres as a stoic mother whose dissident husband vanishes. ~ Daily Telegraph.

★★★★✭ This already history-making effort is deserving of all its laurels. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★✭ Salles, his cast, and crew have done justice to the Paiva family's story. You need to do the same. ~ RTE.

★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.