‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles Returns Home With the Powerful Story of a Broken Family’s Resistance
Walter Salles' 1998 global advancement, Central Stationmade an Oscar election for the spectacular Fernanda Montenegro. Now in her 90s, the starlet shows up towards completion of the director's very first function in his native Brazil in 16 years, the shattering I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aquiin a function that needs her to speak just through her meaningful eyes. What makes the connection a lot more poignant is that she looks like the senior, infirm variation of the lead character-- a lady of peaceful strength and resistance played by Montenegro's child, Fernanda Torres, with amazing grace and self-respect in the face of psychological suffering.
Lots of effective movies have actually been made about the 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil, from 1964 through 1985, sim...