Cinemacomo the gringos identified so much with I’m still here? Walter Salles responds

When I’m still here premiered in Brazilian theaters, on November 7, 2024, the idea of ​​the movie Oscar 2025 It was very distant. However, in addition to the prominence at national box office, production grew a lot abroad, with more than $ 100 million collected around the world. Now, the director Walter Salles He explained the reason for the gringos to identify themselves so much with the feature.

In a press conference after receiving the statuette of Best International Filmthe filmmaker was asked about the reason for I’m still here have broken barriers and related well to foreign hearings.

“The movie is mainly about loss and you react and overcome the loss. And how you fight injustice in the end. This woman had the possibility of bending or embracing life, and embraced her life,” he said (via The Hollywood Reporter). “So, in the end, it’s a movie about it, about the hope that embracing life allows you to have. And that may be the way for the movie.”

“Another way to understand this is that democracy is very fragile around the world. I never thought it would be so fragile, even in this country [Estados Unidos]”He continued.” Therefore, what happened in Brazil in the past seems very close to our present today. It has been extraordinary to see how this woman I mentioned, Eunice Paiva, articulates a form of resistance based on affection, the idea of ​​smiling when you should be portrayed as someone who has doubled, and she refused to bow. And that can be the way for that. “

Another thing I mean is that this movie was seen by five million Brazilians. And the Brazilian public, somehow, became co-author of the film, because what happened in Brazil was, in fact, news in several newspapers around the world, and they realized that there was a film breaking the barrier of the binary political system in Brazil and really offering a reflection of our history.

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 Eunice (FERNANDA TORRES), mother of five, who engages in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubens (Selton Mello, The Auto da Compadecida 2), be brought by police to the landscape and disappear.

In addition to FERNANDA TORRES and Selton Mellothe feature still has Fernanda Montenegro (Invisible life), MAEVE JINKINGS (Toll), Antonio Saboia (Particular destination), Humberto Carrão (Marighella), Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure), CAMILA MARDILA (What time does she come back?), Valentina Herszage (Kill me please) and, among others, Charles Fricks (Elite Troop 2: The enemy is now another). 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.

Unshable 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 nationals, 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 launches, 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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