The New York Times Praises Fernanda Torres’ Performance in “I’m Still Here”: “Countless Emotions”

The film directed by Walter Salles will premiere this Friday the 17th in the United States

The North American newspaper The New York Times elected I’m still here with one of the best films about memory in Latin America and praised its performance Fernanda Torres in the Brazilian feature film. In a text published on Thursday 16th, the journalist and film critic, Alissa Wilkinsonrated the work as “expertly made and richly filmed” and stated that “it is easy to see” why the film became a box office phenomenon in Brazil.

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With more than 3 million of spectators in theaters, the film directed by Walter Salles arrives in cinemas in the United States this Friday the 17th. The journalist also highlighted the performance of Torres, who made history by being the first Brazilian actress to win the award for best actress in a drama film. In I’m still hereshe plays Eunice Paiva, lawyer and widow of former MP Rubens Paiva, whose family life was marked by the kidnapping and murder of her husband during the military dictatorship.

“In his performance – which won a Golden Globe and is aiming for an appointment to the Oscar — Torres stuns. Protecting your children means leaning on joy in fear, on hope in pain. Torres conveys all these layers of emotion in his performance, and his probing eyes are magnetic,” he wrote.

The journalist reinforced the film’s potential to bring to light the conditions of authoritarian regimes and the impacts on people’s lives during that period. “But this isn’t just a film about a strong woman, although it certainly is. It’s also about what authoritarian regimes do to keep people in line, about the totalitarian tactic of making people doubt what they know they’ve seen insisting on lying shamelessly.”

In the text, he also described the film as a portrait of how politics “disturbs and reshapes the environment”, which serves as a warning “to be wary of those who seek to erase or rewrite the past”.

Source: Terra

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