All roads in the Brazilian film industry seem to lead to lead to Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and he considers many of the people he ...
When I’m Still Here was announced as one of the 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees, its co-producer Maria Carlota Bruno described ...
Fernanda Torres gives an outstanding performance as a woman whose husband disappears under Brazil’s repressive dictatorship ...
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui, the film recounts the Paiva family’s harrowing 25-year long ...
The scene captures Brazil’s approach to the legacy of its dictatorship, which ruled from 1964 to 1985. Unlike in Argentina, ...
Just like Britain’s ‘stiff upper lip’, that indominable spirit in the face of adversity, Brazil has a dominant personality ...
Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres delivers a magnificent central performance as the terrified matriarch, who collides with ...
In I’m Still Here, one Brazilian clan’s confrontation with the military dictatorship dramatizes the last half-century of Brazil’s democratic travails.
The film was based upon Paiva’s son, Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s autobiography of the same name. The film begins as a jovial observation of the Paiva’s almost perfect life in Rio. The Paiva’s home is ...
Supernatural picnics, an underground boxing ring and a Christmas Party to decide the fate of England. What are you watching this weekend?