Oscar nominees Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles on Brazil’s 1970s junta and ‘resistance through affection’
The actress and director discuss ‘I’m Still Here’, their portrait of a family torn apart by political persecution — but still defiant ...
How a Family’s Life Is Upended in ‘I’m Still Here’
The film’s director, Walter Salles, narrates a sequence from his film, which is nominated for best picture. Its star, ...
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'I'm Still Here' is an understated look at a family living under Brazilian dictatorship
The film follows the Paiva family living a seemingly idyllic life in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, until one night there's a knock at ...
A family endures a dictatorship in the Oscar-nominated 'I'm Still Here'
A Brazilian family is rocked when the father disappears following a military coup. I'm Still Here tells the heroic true story ...
‘I’m Still Here’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Hi, I’m Walter Salles, and I’m the Director of “I’m Still Here.” We are 30 minutes into the film, in the family home at the ...
Before ‘I’m Still Here,’ Walter Salles Directed One of the Rare Good English-Language Horror Remakes
The spooks that the film does manage derive more from how much Salles personalizes the apartment complex, as it feels fully lived in and bursting with the potential for something spooky around every ...
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The Political Drama of “I’m Still Here” Is Moving but Airbrushed
In Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated film, Fernanda Torres plays a woman whose family is torn apart by Brazil’s military ...
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Review: Brazil's Fernanda Torres gives stunning Oscar-nominated performance in 'I'm Still Here'
Fernanda Torres' Oscar-nominated performance powers this Brazilian film about the "disappearance" of a father under the military dictatorship of the 1970s and her efforts to confront authorities and p ...
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Director Walter Salles on Michelangelo Antonioni's ‘The Passenger’
For his Treat, Salles opens up about how Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 drama The Passenger made a lasting impression on him when he first saw it as a teenager. The film follows BBC journalist David ...