I ‘m still here is a 2024 Brazilian drama film. Walter Salles is the director and star Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro and Selton Mello. It won the Best International Film Oscar on Sunday 2nd March 2025.
It is based on a true story, which takes place in Brazil during the dictatorship era of 70s and thereafter.
The film tells the story of a family living in Rio de Janeiro in 1973. The father is a successful civil engineer and former member of the Brazilian parliament. Together with his wife they raise four daughters and one boy. Their age ranges from 8 to 18 years.
After few months that the military junta has taken power, the police takes the couple and one of the daughters to prison. Although the mother and the daughter are soon released, the father is not. Moreover, the government refuses that he is imprisoned.
The most important point of the film is, to my opinion, the fact that both before and after the above mentioned events, we see the everyday life of the family in such a manner that we almost feel that they are our relatives or friends. This is further emphasized by inserting in the narrative the amateur films which the elder daughter shoots with her camera.
I ‘m still here certainly worth to be seen at a cinema now and deserves a place at a home cinema library.
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