I'm Still Here

To say that Torres digs into the role of Eunice Paiva, who spent a good deal of her life trying to demand accountability for her husband’s disappearance, would be an understatement.

Mothers and wives often get the short shrift in movies like this, about Big Important Topics decided on by men, but Torres instills Eunice with a deep emotional and practical intelligence that’s beautifully feminine.

I’m Still Here is as affecting and inspiring as any movie this year, domestic or foreign.

With everything this film has going for it, it might still not have hit home but for Torres’ shattering performance.

Fact-based family dramas don’t come more intense or indelible than Walter Salles’s emotional powerhouse starring Golden Globe best actress winner Fernanda Torres as a Brazilian wife and mother who fights a military dictatorship to save her flesh and blood

Through Fernanda Torres' formidable presence, the deliberate I'M STILL HERE, a film that locates further meaning in the face of Brazil’s present Far-Right wave, remains in the heart long after the picture fades

This is a must-see movie if only from the standpoint that we should never forget what happened and try to make sure it doesn’t happen again, there or anywhere.

A fully committed portrayal by Fernanda Torres galvanizes this Brazilian biopic that’s provocative as a sociopolitical thriller and poignant as an intimate domestic drama.

The gripping “I’m Still Here” is among the best sagas to incorporate family, fascism and Foosball. And if allowed the use of another “F” word, I would throw in “fabulous” to define the movie’s two Fernandas, Torres and Montenegro.

And it all hinges on Torres being able to pull off the internal emotional struggle to keep moving forward no matter what she discovers. Eunice is a woman who cannot afford to break.