The writer MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA spoke this Tuesday (18) about the success of the movie “I’m still here”, that tells the story of your family. During an interview with TV Cultura’s Provocio, he opined on the reason that led the feature to reach considerable range in the film industry.
“Look, I think I have some explanations. [Walter Salles] It came to me, we talked a lot and I was at a very close time in cinema, ”he said.
Marcelo Rubens remembered the first conversation he had with the Brazilian director about the production of the feature. “I told him, ‘films about dictatorship in Brazil, are usually angry, I always found most angry,” he said.
“This is a History of a family And let’s show the world that the great victims are families. […] It is a family that is there, living its moment of normality and functionality with father, mother, children, school, leisure, which is suddenly interrupted by something inexplicable. A absolutely disproportionate violence with my father, ”added the writer.
Author of the book that inspired the movie “I’m Still Here,” he lamented the fact that his father became one of the cases of victims of the military dictatorship in Brazil.
“My father is a dead man. He is a case, a case in which no one knows where he was and when he died.
Marcelo Rubens added that he was “in shock” when he saw the family home produced for the film, due to the similarity with the royal home where Rubens and Eunice Paiva lived with their children in Rio de Janeiro.
In January 1971, the military took former deputy Rubens Paiva, played in the film by Selton Mello. Since then, Eunice (Fernanda Torres) and her children have had to rebuild their lives amid the struggle for justice after the disappearance.
“I’m still here” It became the first Brazilian movie to win an Oscar statuette in early March by winning the best international film category.
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