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Film Review - I'm Still Here

Film Review - I'm Still Here

Fernanda Torres is superb in Walter Salles's true story of the Brazilian dictatorship's tragic impact on one family during the early 1970s and beyond

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Mar 04, 2025
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Director Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here deals with the horrifying ripple effects of the Brazilian military dictatorship on one family. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, the screenplay by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega is primarily set in the early 1970s, when the dictatorship was at its height. It concerns former co…

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