Today on Inside the Arthouse, three time Oscar nominated director Walter Salles talks with us about his newest film I’M STILL HERE, a film which wowed audiences when it premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, and has the very rare honor of being nominated for Best Foreign language film AND Best Picture, along with a Best Actress Nomination for Fernanda Torres.
Walter Salles came to the attention of the international film community with the Oscar-nominated CENTRAL STATION. With I’M STILL HERE, he returns to his Brazilian roots.
This powerful film tells a true story from the period of Brazil’s military dictatorship. But with an amazing performance by Fernanda Torres in the leading role, it is as much a story of personal strength as it is a testament to political triumph.
Join us now as we welcome Walter Salles, on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE.
One afternoon in 1971, Rubens Paiva, a former congressman and outspoken critic of Brazil’s newly instituted military dictatorship, was taken from his home in Rio de Janeiro by government officials, told nothing more than that he must give a “deposition” to authorities, and disappeared.
Adapted from his son Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, this overwhelming, richly realized political drama from Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) stays tightly wedded to the perspective of Rubens’s wife, Eunice (a shattering Fernanda Torres), whose indefatigable search for the truth about her husband would stretch out for decades.
A devastating true story, I’m Still Here is exhilarating in its portrayal of human tenacity in the face of injustice. Featuring a deeply affecting appearance from Fernanda Montenegro, Oscar nominee for Salles’s Central Station. A Sony Pictures Classics release.