I'm Still Here (2024 film): Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Brazilian film about a woman battling a repressive regime
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
Life in Brazil under the military dictatorship that ruled the country for more than two decades from the mid-1960s onwards was a precarious thing. Anyone seen as being at odds with the ruling powers could be arrested and simply disappeared, with their family and friends left in tortured ignorance about their fate.
Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) refuses to accept this cruel state of affairs - when her husband Rubens is taken away in 1970 never to be seen again, she spends decades risking everything as she fights to discover his fate and bring anyone who might have harmed him to justice.
Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station), this powerful Brazilian film mixes the broad battle for nationwide justice with the close-up emotional damage wreaked on a single family to brilliant effect. Torres's lead performance is a thing of heart-rending subtlety, conveying huge sweeps of emotion with the smallest of gestures. (137 minutes)
