Marcelo Rubens Paiva On Walter Salles’ Oscar-Nominated Adaptation Of His Book ‘I’m Still Here’: “It Really Is A Universal Film”
deadline.comAll roads in the Brazilian film industry seem to lead to lead to Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and he considers many of the people he has worked with in the last 40-odd years of his life to be family.
By coincidence, family is also the subject of the film that has changed his life dramatically over the last six months. Based on Paiva’s 2015 autobiography Ainda estou aqui, Walter Salles’ film I’m Still Here tells the story of his mother, Eunice Paiva, whose politically active husband Rubens was taken by military police in January 1971 and never returned home.
Paiva is no stranger to drama, having overcome tetraplegia after diving into a shallow lake at the age of 20, an incident that informed his first bestseller, Feliz Ano Velho (AKA Happy Old Year) in 1983.
But he admits to being overwhelmed by the international goodwill that has followed I’m Still Here since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last September, resulting in two Oscar nominations for the film and a Best Actress nomination for Fernanda Torres, who plays Eunice.
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