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The journey of an Oscar-nominated film is a long one.
There was no such thing as a campaign.
Now, everybody asks, ‘How’s the campaign going?'"
The film tells the story of the Paiva family, whose father disappeared during Brazil’s military dictatorship.
“So we asked him to keep close to the development, as much as he could.”
In this time he conducted extensive research and interviews, including with the rest of the Paiva family.
Salles says Eunice wanted to rise above her family’s tragedy in a non-melodramatic way.
She’s being interviewed by a newspaper who wants to take her family’s photo.
They all pose, smiling for the camera, when the journalist suggests they look a bit more somber.
“No, we’ll smile,” she tells him.
Torres understood this side of Paiva completely.
It’s very beautiful to see that."
“I think that launching a film has a lot to do with entering an ocean.
That’s definitely why we do cinema.”
I’m Still Here is out now in UK cinemas from February 21 and US theaters now.
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