“I’m still here” debuted in Portuguese theaters on January 16 and has been a success across the country. The film adds three nominations for the Oscars, an unprecedented feat for Brazilian cinema. Fernanda Torres competes for the best main actress.
The Brazilian film “I’m Still Here”, by Walter Salles, led for the third consecutive week the screening in movie theaters in Portugal and adds 179,611 spectators, according to data from (ICA).
“I’m still here” premiered in Portuguese theaters on January 16 and has since had a weekly average of 59,000 viewers in about 80 rooms.
The data collected by the ICA from 16 January to last Wednesday indicate 179,611 entries and 1.1 million euros of ticket offices.
Film reports repression in dictatorship
“I am still here” is a biographical pending time film, about a Brazilian family hit by the repression and torture of the period of military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985).
The film recalls the story of former Deputy Rubens Paiva, who was arrested, tortured and killed by the Brazilian dictatorship in 1971, and his wife, activist and lawyer Eunice Paiva, who had to resume family life with her children, and who tried to complain justice for the death of her husband, whose body was never found.
The lead roles are played by Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello.
“I am still here” is based on the book of the namesake of memories, by writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva, son of both, reporting not only the repression and acts of torture suffered by the father, but also the ability to overcome and resistance from the mother until at the end of life.
Success reaches the Oscars
The film, which also enters actress Fernanda Montenegro, adds three nominations for the Oscars, an unprecedented feat for Brazilian cinema, being a candidate in the categories of best film, best international movie, in non -English language, and best main actress, by provision of Fernanda Torres.
For this film, the Brazilian actress has already won a Golden Globe of best interpretation in drama.
In Brazil, “I’m still here” debuted in November and has more than 3.8 million viewers and 14.3 million euros of revenue.
Quoting data from the National Cinema Agency, the Brazilian press says that “I’m still here” is the fifth movie with the biggest box office in the history of Brazilian cinema.
