#walter salles

[redfieldfeer]

Em português mesmo porque esse filme é da minha terra: a importância da memória para que quem amamos não sejam esquecidos e para que a ditadura nunca mais volte.

Viva a democracia, viva a Eunice Paiva, viva ao Brasil dos brasileiros!

Fernanda Torres, você é colossal.

I'm Still Here (2024)

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Oscar nominees Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles on Brazil’s 1970s junta and ‘resistance through affection’

On January 20 1971, Brazilian civil engineer and former congressman Rubens Paiva was arrested at his Rio de Janeiro home by officials of the country’s military dictatorship. His wife Eunice and 15-year-old daughter Eliana were also taken in for interrogation. They were released — Eunice after a full 12 days — but Rubens never returned home. It was only years later that Eunice — who studied to become a lawyer in her quest to establish the truth of her husband’s fate — learnt the facts around his death.

In 2014, the National Truth Commission confirmed that Rubens had been murdered by the regime. The following year, his story became more widely known when his son Marcelo Rubens Paiva, aged 10 when his father disappeared, wrote a memoir addressing the family’s ordeal.

Now a film based on that book and directed by Walter Salles, I’m Still Here, is set for international success. It has been nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best International Feature Film and Best Actress for Fernanda Torres, who won Best Female Actor in a Film (Drama) at last month’s Golden Globes for her portrayal of Eunice. The film is already a massive success in Brazil, where it has attracted more than 3mn cinemagoers and sparked fresh debate on a painful chapter in the national history.

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[poemespour]

“and of course I want to dedicate it to my mother, you have no idea, she was here 25 years ago” CRYING SOBBING THROWING UP

[rrxxnnllz39]

🏆1998: Fernanda Montenegro becomes a Golden Globe Nominee (Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama) for the movie "Central Station", directed by Walter Salles. 🏆2024: Fernanda Torres becomes a Golden Globe Nominee (Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama) for the movie "I'm Still Here", directed by Walter Salles.

[cigarrw-s]

Ainda Estou Aqui (2024) Dir. Walter Salles

[gael-garcia]

Gael García Bernal, Diarios de motocicleta (2004, Walter Salles)

[fiveswansandthemoon]

ainda estou aqui.

dir. walter salles, 2024.

[girls-cry]

I’m Still Here (also known as Ainda Estou Aqui) is now an official Oscar nominated film.

[archivearts]

I’M STILL HERE (2024) dir. by Walter Salles

[beforethepoison]

" I want to dedicate it to my mother. She was here 25 years ago. And this is like a proof that art can endure through life"

Fernanda Torres dedicating her Golden Globes Best Actress win to her mother Fernanda Montenegro

[khaoala]

No need to smile.

Why not?

The editor asked for it. You know, for a less happy picture.

Ah, he wants it sad. We will smile. Smile.

AINDA ESTOU AQUI // I'M STILL HERE (2024) dir. Walter Salles

[artificialharmony]

"I'm Still Here" is an important movie about a horrible period of brazilian history but it's also an important movie about grief.

It's about the realization that your life has been profoundly, irreparably changed forever that never comes in the moment of pain. Sometimes it hits you at a diner and you just have to keep it together because who else will? Can't cry now, you just have to swallow your grief and keep going.

It's about love for and from this family, about little moments of life with people coming and going, dancing over good meals...And then it’s all suddenly taken away.

It's a movie about ghosts.

The movie shows the "ghost of the dictatorship" and how it haunts, but also the ghosts of losing people you loved deeply and suddenly. It's why this specific and very short dialogue from the movie makes me tear up every time I remember it:

“When did you bury Dad?”

"What?"

"When did you realize Dad was never coming home?"

Because how many days after his death did I, too, wait for my Dad to come home to hug me until one ordinary day at school, having a hard time on a math test, I realized that he was never coming back to help me study math ever again? And how many times did the children of Rubens Paiva felt the same as I did doing their daily and ordinary tasks?

This is a tough thing. The perception of grief in the middle of a meeting where you can't send a message to that person complaining, a photo that would have been funny to them but you no longer have that person, a plan that evaporates in the nonexistence of the other...

The pain of loss always hits much harder in everyday life... Like that scene of Eunice Paiva at the ice cream shop without her husband and seeing other families being complete while hers wasn't.

This idea of ​​the vacuum of an everyday space is deadly...And even years later, when you think you're over it, it hits just like the day it happened: while listening to a song they liked, watching a movie you know they would've loved to watch with you, a book they showed you, eating a food you two would eat together...Their ghosts are always there, the grief is always looming.

[karen-crysttina]

THE GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER FERNANDA TORRES

🇧🇷✨ our mother ✨🇧🇷

[poemespour]

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER OSCAR NOMINEES

[cosmonautroger]

Ainda Estou Aqui, Walter Salles, 2024

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

“Sensação estranha a de que um atestado de óbito seja um alívio” [“A strange feeling that a death certificate is a relief”]

Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva in Ainda Estou Aqui (2024) [I'm Still Here] dir. Walter Salles