Walter Salles’ drama I’m Still Here enjoyed a buzzy world premiere in competition at Venice, with Fernanda Torres‘ lead performance putting her among the hot contenders for the best actress prize, and now arrives in Toronto for its North American debut before heading to San Sebastian.
Torres plays the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens Paiva disappeared in the early years of the 1964 to 1985 Brazilian military dictatorship.
The civil engineer and former leftist congressman had initially gone into exile after the coup but returned to Brazil to reunite with his wife and children, taking up residence in a beachfront house in Rio de Janeiro.
He was abducted from his home in 1971 by military forces and never seen again by his family. Eunice Paiva relentlessly pursued the truth about what happened to her husband at the same time as keeping a roof over the heads of their five children.
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