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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Marcelo rubens paiva - The Untold Story

‘Classic tinpot dictator’: Trump exports his assault on democracy to Brazil

US president seems to be weaponizing tariffs to punish Brazil for its coup trial against his ally Bolsonaro

The Guardian - US

Two Oscar-winning films shed light on the thousands of disappeared people in Latin America

Two visions of the trauma of disappeared people in Latin America had a central role at Sunday's Academy Awards

The Independent UK

Author behind Oscar-nominated film finds praise and ire for his rebuke of Brazil's dictatorship

Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a popular author in Brazil for four decades, has had intense days and exchanges since the movie based on his 2015 book “I’m Still Here” became a box-office success

The Independent UK

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Why I’m Still Here should win the best picture Oscar

Walter Salles’s true-story drama reflects on a dark chapter from Brazil’s authoritarian past that has a chilling resonance for the world we live in today

The Guardian - UK

I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

When a former congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres

The Guardian - UK

An explosion of colour and the downfall of an Instagram darling – what to see and watch this week

Anyone familiar with Scotland will know the weather is at best mercurial, and at worst wet, grey and what we call “dreich” – a good Scottish word meaning drab. For an artist in the early 20th century suffering not just miserable weather but a cultural landscape of joyless, soul-sucking Presbyterianism,…

The Conversation

I’m Still Here: a vibrant testament to female resilience that mourns Brazil’s dark past

Director Walter Salles’s first feature film since 2012, the Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here is a return to home ground, and a return to strength, for the Brazilian auteur. At 68, Salles reconnects with his youth, telling a story in which he does not figure, but takes up the role of…

The Conversation

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Oscars Best Picture nominee I'm Still Here tells a powerful, hidden story of Brazil's past – and it's been championed by everyone from Guillermo del Toro to Alfonso Cuarón

Big Screen Spotlight | I'm Still Here director Walter Salles opens up about the powerful response the biographical drama has received around the world

Total Film

Brazilian film 'I’m Still Here' tops box office, forcing nation to reckon with dictatorship trauma

Brazilian-made dramas rarely last long in local cinemas

The Independent UK

The Story Behind 'I'm Still Here': Brazil's Oscar-Buzzed Golden Globe Nominee

The Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles has been nominated for multiple Golden Globes and is Brazil's entry into for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.

Latin Times

Brazil film portraying notorious crime during dictatorship strikes chord: ‘It hasn’t been overcome’

Abduction and murder of Rubens Paiva under the 1964-85 regime is retold in new box office hit I’m Still Here

The Guardian - US

Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 election

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