I'm Still Here

In this muscular but graceful performance, Torres shows us what resistance truly means.

[Fernanda] Torres encapsulates the many thoughts, meanings and motifs underlying the film in her resolute persona, and propels its narrative by her powerful presence.

[I'm Still Here] aims to illustrate that forced disappearances cause enormous psychological traumas to those left behind, but it does so in the absence of the full backdrop.

As Eunice, Fernanda Torres turns in an outstanding performance marked by restraint, all the rage and grief she can’t openly express.

What makes I’m Still Here come alive is Torres’s faultless performance as the stabilising force in a family’s drift back to compromised normality.

...the most remarkable of feelgood films.

Walter Salles’ film tells a hugely dramatic real-life story by concentrating not on the big moments but on the little ones. The results are quietly devastating.

A razor-sharp thriller, a painfully emotional tale of grief, and a deeply felt romance in which love is measured by the absence.

Walter Salles portrays the horror of the Brazilian dictatorship, while reminding us that happiness is the most sublime form of resistance.[Full review in Spanish]

The film reflects a dark page in Brazilian history, but because it’s too tidy and airtight, it fails to leave much of an impression by remaining in a passive state of subtlety.