I’m still here, of director Walter Salles, Relive the trauma of the dictatorship in Brazil in theaters. Three million spectators in this country have already seen the film, which now arrives at the Spanish rooms. The critic Carlos Boyero tells in the country that it was the filmmaker Fernando Trueba who urged him to see it “as soon as possible”. And how, after doing so, he understands the “sentimental proximity of Trueba with Salles.”
The Salles film, which premiered last year at the Venice Festival, addresses the 60th anniversary of the military coup perpetrated in the name of Anticomunism. “What barbarity dictatorships, including that of the proletariat, that I don’t know how many people sent to hell,” says Boyero.
On the director, the critic explains that the story tells with truthfulness and naturalness, without empalago: “It tells this tragedy with complexity and subtlety you have the feeling that everything is really. It is a good film about a dark matter, that of the definitive loss of paradise. ”
“It has an excellent actress, sober, with class, revealing what happens within that torn woman, without making the slightest fuss, without asking you to pity it, with a permanently worthy look and attitude,” Boyero concludes about the interpretation of The Brazilian Fernanda Torres. The 59 -year -old actress embodies the wife of a disappeared from the dictatorship, a role for which she won the Golden Globe and is nominated for the Oscars.
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I’m still here
Address: Walter Salles.
Interpreters: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello, Valentina Herszage.
Gender: drama. Brazil, 2024.
Duración: 135 minutes.
Premiere: February 21.