CALLERI: Is ‘I’m Still Here’ Oscar-bound? And Orson Welles’ ‘The Trial’ returns.

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CALLERI: Is ‘I’m Still Here’ Oscar-bound? And Orson Welles’ ‘The Trial’ returns.

As Hollywood anticipates an Academy Awards ceremony on March 2 in which very little regarding who’s going to win is absolutely certain, American audiences have been very slow to enjoy

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I am still here (Ainda Estou Aqui, Brazil - France / 2024). Address: Walter Salles. Screenplay: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's book. Photograph: Adrian Teijido. Edition: Affonso Gonçalves. Music: Warren Ellis. Elenco: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Valentina Herszage, Luiza Kosovski, Fernanda Montenegro. Rating: Suitable for over 13 years. Distributor: UIP. Duration: 137 minutes. Our opinion: very good. I am still …

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What Oscar-Nominated Brazilian Film I'm Still Here Can Teach Us About Resisting Fascism

Loosely, fascism describes a populist political system that centers one group, usually the “mainstream” one, via oppressive, authoritarian power. You know, like Brazil in the 1970s, when the Oscar Best Picture nominee “I’m Still Here” takes place. Starring Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, the Portuguese-language film is based on the real-life story of Eunice Paiva. When the movie starts, she’s busy raising her five children, being a supportive…

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Nominated for an Oscar in the categories of Best Direction and Best Picture for “A Complete Stranger”, James Mangold expressed support for “I'm Still Here” at the award ceremony. In an interview with CNN, the filmmaker revealed that he had watched the Brazilian film and praised Walter Salles. “I've watched [“I'm Still Here”] and I love Walter Salles, I think he's brilliant. I met Walter 30 years ago at Sundance, when he was there with his first …

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The first film by Brazilian Walter Salles in 12 years speaks of the ravages caused by tyranny and wounds that never heal, but also of the importance of not forgetting and not folding in the face of oppression.

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I'm Still Here review – memory as resistance

As they drag their sand-covered feet from Ipanema beach to their house across the road in 1970, the Paiva children can’t imagine that, 50 years later, people would be marching down those same streets asking for the reestablishment of the military regime that violently killed their father. But history is cruel in its cycles, and the most willing to forget are often the easiest to convert. Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here is about memory as resistanc…