The global acclaim of the Oscar-winning movie "I'm Still Here" has profoundly impacted Brazil’s social and political life — ...

For “I’m Still Here,” viewers do not walk away with the same feeling. It begins with excitement and energy but ends feeling ...

But the familial connections don't stop there. In I'm Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, the real-life wife to progressive Brazilian politician Rubens Paiva, who was kidnapped and murdered by ...

Left behind to pick up the pieces, his wife Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) — the film’s true protagonist — would later become an influential human rights activist. In 1971, engineer and ...

Eliana was sent home after a day, but Eunice was detained for 12 days, forced to repeat the interrogation again and again. In a 2024 interview about his family’s ordeal, Marcelo Rubens Paiva ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “I’m Still Here,” a Brazilian film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, won the Oscar on Sunday for best international ...

I’m Still Here (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is one of the best movies I’ve seen in months, maybe ...

The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country’s military dictatorship in 1971 ...

Actress Fernanda Torres was also nominated for an Oscar for her leading role as Eunice Paiva. Her husband, Rubens Paiva, had been a congressman before the U.S.-backed coup d'etat in 1964. After he was ...

The novel recounts Paiva’s father’s disappearance in 1971, under the repressive dictatorship of Emílio Garrastazu Médici, through the memories of the author’s mother, Eunice Paiva.