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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is destroyed by unbridled violence during the grip of the military dictatorship in Brazil in 1971. Selected by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema as Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Acting in Mais Você: Episode of December 3, 2024 (2024). The Feast of the Three Kings Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Played by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the greatest international recognition in recent years, winner of the award for best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar, Ainda Estou Aqui dramatizes the trajectory of the Paiva family between the arrest of Rubens Paiva and the struggle of the father and Eunice after the disappearance of her husband. Walter Salles draws the viewer into the intimacy of this family and makes him an accomplice who cares about the fate of each of them, creating three-dimensional, real and believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with delicacy, without falling into excess or caricature. Detailed set design, a slender script, natural performances, a carefully chosen soundtrack, and precise editing all contribute to the director being able to convey exactly what he intended. Since I knew the story and had read the book the film was based on, as well as reports about it, my attention was drawn to the cinematic solutions used by the director. He managed to transform this story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world.
