Oscar -nominated actress for work in the movie I am still here also highlights the contemporary tone of the work: “It’s not just about the past”
In the dispute for three categories of Oscar 2025, I’m still here presents the real history of Rubens Paivakilled by the military dictatorship, focusing on the trajectory of his wife, Eunice Paiva. It is a story with a series of layers that refer to history not only of Brazil, but also from international agents-as explained by FERNANDA TORRES.
The protagonist of the feature, nominated by the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences to the Best Actress Award, recalled in an interview with Variety -Famous American Cinema Magazine-The Influence of the United States on the 1964 Military Coup. John KennedyCogitates to the then ambassador of the United States in Brazil, Lincoln Gordona military intervention.
Fernanda reflects:
“This movie was important – politically, socially. Different generations went to see this movie and were played and proud. It is very special for Brazil. The dictatorship in Brazil did not happen in isolation. It was part of the Cold War. The United States sponsored the dictatorship in Brazil. It was a dystopian season. ”
The actress also points out that the story of I’m still here is current, even if it portrays something that occurred in the 1970s. She states:
“This is not just a story about the past – it is also a reflection of the now. Again, we are full of fear, divided and angry. The populism and the idea that a violent state can put order in the modern mess – is tempting. But we must resist. ”
US influence on the Brazilian military dictatorship
According to Brazil agencyAmericans struggled to use financial resources for promoting and encouraging initiatives that were intended to combat communism in Brazil. Studies now work to send a US naval fleet to support the coup, proving the articulation between Brazilian military and the government of that country.
Adopting an interventionist policy, the United States government failed the nationalization of US companies and the foreign policy strategies of João Goulart -Opposite president who was not communist, but proposed reforms of labor and center-left, such as land reform. Professor at Columbia University, John Dingens In 2014 he told Agência Brasil that the United States actively participated to undermine Jango’s management.
“The historical record of course. Because of an exaggerated fear of a repetition of the Cuban Revolution – a scenario that objective observers considered to be extremely unlikely, bordering on geopolitical paranoia – the Ambassador and CIA agents conspired and encouraged Brazilian military personnel to testify the president -elect by the Brazilian people, João Goulart. ”
Professor of History at the University of Brasilia (UnB), Virgílio Arraesalso points to Brazil agency that the US military power was one of the main reasons for not reaction from President João Goulart to the coup given by the Brazilian military against his government. He also states that fleet displacement must have been the largest naval movement in the southern hemisphere since the time of World War II.
What is the story of I’m still here?
Based on the book of the same name of MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA, I’m still hereis set in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s, amid the military dictatorship, and tells the story of Eunicemother of five, who gets involved in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubensbe taken by police officers and disappear.
In addition to FERNANDA TORRESthe feature still has Fernanda Montenegro (Invisible life), Selton Mello (The movie of my life), MAEVE JINKINGS (Toll), Antonio Saboia (Particular destination), Humberto Carrão (Marighella) and Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure) In the cast. Watch the trailer:
Rolling Stone Brazil Cinema Special
The cinema is the subject of the new special printed of the Rolling Stone Brazil. In a magazine dedicated to seventh art lovers, we interviewed Francis Ford Coppolawhich reaches 85 years amid the release of his new movie, Megalópolisbold and millionaire endeavor financed by himself.
Undabase in the face of controversial reactions to the novelty, which took about 40 years to get out of paper, the filmmaker defends the boldness of being creative of the film industry and opens, in good Portuguese, the influence of Brazil on his new movie: “Joy” .
The special also brings conversations with Walter Salles, FERNANDA TORRES and Selton Mello on I’m still herea chat about soundtracks with the conductor João Carlos Martinsan exclusive list of the 100 best films in history (50 national, 50 international), another list of the 101 largest trails in the history of cinema, one warm for the Oscar 2025 and the radar of globe, Globo Filmes, O2 Play and O2 movies for the coming months.
The Special Cinema of Rolling Stone Brazil It is already on newsstands, but can also be bought at the EDITORA PROFILE store for R $ 29.90. Check it out:
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