The actress played Eunice Paiva in the film directed by Walter Salles and competed with names like Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman
Fernanda Torres won this Sunday, 5th, the Golden Globe Best Actress for her role in I’m Still Heredirected by Walter Salles.
The actress competed for the award against Nicole Kidman, Tilda Swinton, Pamela Anderson, Kate Winslet and Angelina Jolie.
The last time Brazil had secured the Golden Globe was in 1999, when Central Brazil (1998) won the award for Best Foreign Film. In the same year, Fernanda Montenegro competed for the Best Actress category, but lost to Cate Blanchett.
What is the story of I’m Still Here?
Based on the book of the same name by 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 children, who becomes involved in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubensbe taken away by undercover police officers and disappear.
The film stars Fernanda Torres (End) and also has Fernanda Montenegro (The Invisible Life), Selton Mello (The Movie of My Life), Maeve Jinkings (Toll), Antonio Saboia (Private Destination), Humberto Carrão (Marighella) and Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure) in the cast. Watch the trailer:
Source: Rollingstone
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