I'm Still Here (2024 film)

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I'm Still Here
I'm Still Here (2024 film) poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Portuguese Ainda Estou Aqui
Directed by Walter Salles
Screenplay by
  • Murilo Hauser
  • Heitor Lorega
Based onI'm Still Here
by Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAdrian Teijido
Edited by Affonso Gonçalves
Music by Warren Ellis
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 1 September 2024 (2024-09-01)(Venice)
  • 7 November 2024 (2024-11-07)(Brazil)
  • 15 January 2025 (2025-01-15)(France)
  • 17 January 2025 (2025-01-17)(USA)
Running time
135 minutes
Countries
  • Brazil
  • France
LanguagePortuguese
Budget R$ 8 million (US$1.48 million) [1]
Box officeUS$12.3 million [2]

I'm Still Here (Portuguese : Ainda Estou Aqui) is a 2024 political biographical drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's 2015 memoir of the same name. It stars Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro as Eunice Paiva, a mother and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. [3] Soon after its release in Brazilian theaters on 7 November 2024 by Sony Pictures Releasing International, the film was the target of an unsuccessful boycott by the Brazilian far-right. [4] [5] [6] Grossing $12.3 million on a $1.5 million production budget, it became the highest-grossing Brazilian film since the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] [8] [9]

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The film had its world premiere on 1 September 2024 at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, [10] where it received critical acclaim, with unanimous praise towards Torres' performance, [11] winning the Best Screenplay award. [12] It was named one of the Top 5 International Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review. [13] At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, Torres won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama category, while the film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also selected as the Brazilian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. [14]

Plot

In 1970, former congressman Rubens Paiva returns to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after six years of self-exile following the revocation of his tenure at the outset of the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. Living in an idyllic house near Leblon beach with his wife Eunice and their five children, Paiva returns to his civil career while continuing to support expatriates without discussing his activities with his family.

Following the kidnapping of the Swiss ambassador by far-left revolutionary movements, Brazil faces a looming political instability. A military raid takes place in Paiva's house, resulting in his arrest and disappearance in January 1971. Eunice's public inquiries on Rubens' whereabouts results in her arrest and torture for 12 days. Eliana, their teenage daughter, is also imprisoned but is released after 24 hours. After moderate media outrage ignited by family and friends, Eunice is unofficially informed of Rubens' fate.

25 years later, in 1996, Eunice receives from the Brazilian state — now once again a democracy — Rubens Paiva's official death certificate. In 2014, during a family gathering surrounded by her children and grandchildren, the now 85-year-old Eunice lives with advanced Alzheimer's disease. When a news report about the National Truth Commission addresses Rubens' case, a distressed Eunice appears to remember her past.

Cast

Production

The screenplay was written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, and adapted from the memoir Ainda Estou Aqui by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Eunice's son. Hauser also co-wrote the screenplay for Karim Aïnouz's The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (2019), based on the novel of the same name by Martha Batalha.

Principal photography began in June 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [16] The film was produced by RT Features and VideoFilmes in co-production with Globoplay, Mact Productions, Conspiração Filmes and Arte France Cinéma.

Release

Director Walter Salles and lead actress Fernanda Torres promoting I'm Still Here at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival ImStillHereBFILFF131024 (14 of 36) (54066294309) (cropped2).jpg
Director Walter Salles and lead actress Fernanda Torres promoting I'm Still Here at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival

In May 2024, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to I'm Still Here in North America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand at the Marché du Film. [3]

The film had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 1 September 2024, receiving a standing ovation of over 10 minutes; [17] it was nominated for the Golden Lion [10] and won the Best Screenplay prize. [18] It was also screened at the Toronto, New York and London film festivals in September and October. [19] [20] It was featured in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam to be screened in February 2025. [21]

To qualify for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards, the film was given a limited theatrical run in the Brazilian city of Salvador from 19 to 25 September 2024, [22] followed by a nationwide release on 7 November by Sony Pictures Releasing. [23]

I'm Still Here was released in France on 15 January 2025 by StudioCanal. [24] In the United States, the film received a one-week awards-qualifying run in November 2024 and is set to open in New York City and Los Angeles on 17 January 2025, before expanding to a wide release on 14 February. [25]

Reception

Box office

On its opening day in Brazil, I'm Still Here brought 50,320 people to the cinemas, grossing R$1.1 million. [26] In its first weekend, even though it was the target of a frustrated boycott by the Brazilian far-right, [27] the film debuted in first place at the box office with 358,000 admissions, earning R$8.6 million, surpassing Venom: The Last Dance third week (R$6.6 million) and Red One first weekend (R$5.3 million). [28]

By January 2025, the film had surpassed 3 million admissions, and became the highest-grossing Brazilian film since the COVID-19 pandemic, grossing US12.3 million. [7] [8]

Critical response

Fernanda Torres in the film's world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Many critics considered her performance one of the best of the year. She became the first Brazilian actress to win the Golden Globe for acting. Fernanda Torres-68482.jpg
Fernanda Torres in the film's world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Many critics considered her performance one of the best of the year. She became the first Brazilian actress to win the Golden Globe for acting.

I'm Still Here received overwhelming praise upon release by the public, film critics and the Brazilian and international press; praise was mainly directed to Fernanda Torres' performance. [31]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 94% of 49 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.0/10.The website's consensus reads: "Carried along by Fernanda Torres' superb performance, I'm Still Here poignantly explores a nation's upheaval through one family's search for answers." [32] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 84 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [33] Jessica Kiang of Variety praised the film and its dramatic charge: "Classical in form but radical in empathy, I'm Still Here arguably does not need the follow-up sections—one set in 1996 and the other in 2014—that somewhat alter the emotional rhythm. But on the other hand, these characters are so vivid that we don't want to leave them either". [34] For Wendy Ide of Screen Daily , Salles "never over-labours the film's emotional beats, relying instead on Torres' magnificent, intricately layered performance to drive the picture"; she also praised Montenegro, "who has a brief but exceptionally powerful cameo here as the elderly Eunice". [35]

Several international outlets applauded Fernanda Torres' work, with Collider considering it one of the best performances of the year, being "more than deserving of an Oscar nomination". [29] In her review for Deadline , Stephanie Bunbury describes the film as a "celebration of Brazil", and praises Torres, stating that the actress "has an emotional delicacy as Eunice that conveys, through the smallest and subtlest signals, what it costs her to hold back her anxiety and anger for the sake of her family. It is a performance that should catapult her into the awards race, 25 years after her mother Fernanda Montenegro was Oscar-nominated for Salles' breakthrough feature, Central Station ". [36] David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter highlighted the relationship between Montenegro and Torres, saying "What makes the connection even more poignant is that she appears as the elderly, infirm version of the protagonist", and recognized I'm Still Here as "a gripping, profoundly touching film with a deep well of pathos. It's one of Salles' best". [37] For IndieWire, Leila Latif says Torres' performance "is as spectacular as her filmography would suggest, having marked herself out as one of the South American continent's greatest actors in roles in Foreign Land (also directed by Salles) and won a Best Actress Award in Love Me Forever or Never . Her Eunice possesses phenomenal strength and stoicism which make each moment of pain that peep through the chinks of her armor all the more moving", and praised her on-screen interaction with Selton Mello. [38]

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón named it one of his favorite films of 2024, saying "Watching a Walter Salles film is to be embraced in generosity, is like experiencing a gravitational pull, both lifting and grounding us at the same time with an invisible yet undeniable force. With I'm Still Here, this effect is even more compelling. [39]

It was named one of the Top 5 International Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review, [40] and one of 50 Best Films of the year by British film magazine Sight & Sound . [41]

Accolades

AwardCeremony dateCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
Venice International Film Festival 7 September 2024 Golden Lion Walter Salles Nominated [42]
Best ScreenplayMurilo Hauser and Heitor LoregaWon
Green Drop Award Walter Salles Won [43]
SIGNIS AwardWon [44]
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television 22 October 2024Actress Award – International Film Fernanda Torres Honored [45]
Vancouver International Film Festival 11 October 2024Gala & Special Presentations Audience AwardI'm Still HereWon [46]
Mill Valley Film Festival 16 October 2024Audience Favorite World CinemaWon [47]
Pingyao International Film Festival 18 October 2024Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon East-West Award Walter Salles Honored [48]
São Paulo International Film Festival 30 October 2024Audience Award – Best Brazilian FictionI'm Still HereWon [49]
Miami Film Festival 7 November 2024Audience AwardWon [50]
Festival international du film d'histoire de Pessac  [ fr ]25 November 2024Prix Danielle Le Roy du Jury ÉtudiantWon [51]
Prix du PublicWon
Premio Arcanjo de Cultura2 December 2024CinemaWon [52]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 8 December 2024 Best Lead Performance Fernanda Torres Runner-up [53]
Astra Film Awards 8 December 2024 Best International FeatureI'm Still HereNominated [54]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 8 December 2024 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [55]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle 15 December 2024 Best International Feature Film Nominated [56]
New Mexico Film Critics 15 December 2024 Best Foreign Language Film Won [57]
Best Adapted ScreenplayMurilo Hauser and Heitor LoregaRunner-up
New York Film Critics Online 16 December 2024Best International FeatureI'm Still HereRunner-up [58]
Veja Rio - Carioca do Ano Cinema Fernanda Torres Honored [59]
IndieWire Critics Poll Best Performance10th place [60]
Premio F5 19 December 2024Performance of the Year - FilmWon [61]
Best FilmI'm Still HereWon
Performance of the Year - Children's RoleCora MoraWon
Florida Film Critics Circle 20 December 2024 Best International Film I'm Still HereNominated [62]
Greater Western New York Film Critics Association 4 January 2025Best ActressFernanda TorresNominated [63]
DiscussingFilm Global Critic Award Best ActressNominated [64]
Best International FeatureI'm Still HereNominated
Associação de Criticos de Cinema do Rio de JaneiroFilm of the YearWon [65]
Golden Globe Awards 5 January 2025 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [66]
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Fernanda Torres Won
Austin Film Critics Association 6 January 2025 Best International FilmI'm Still HereNominated [67]
National Board of Review 7 January 2025 Top 5 International Films Won [68]
Puerto Rico Critics Association 12 January 2025Best Actress Fernanda Torres Runner-up [69]
Best International FilmI'm Still HereWon
Palm Springs International Film Festival 12 January 2025 FIPRESCI Prize - Best International Film FeatureWon [70]
North Dakota Film Society 13 January 2025Best International FeatureNominated [71]
Best Actress Fernanda Torres Nominated
Satellite Awards 26 January 2025 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Pending [72]
Best Motion Picture – International I'm Still HerePending
Online Film Critics Society 27 January 2025 Best Foreign Language Film Pending [73]
Best Actress Fernanda Torres Pending
Critics' Choice Awards February 2025 Best Foreign Language Film I'm Still HerePending [74]
Goya Awards 8 February 2025 Best Ibero-American Film Pending [75]
BAFTA Awards 16 February 2025 Best Film Not in the English Language Pending [76]

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