In Brazil, the film “I’m still here” unleashes passions

LETTER FROM SAO PAULO

Eunice (Fernanda Torres) in “I’m Still Here,” by Walter Salles. STUDIO CANAL

In the heart of the tropical summer, nothing suggested such an attack. On January 15, The World found himself overwhelmed by thousands of messages from Brazilian Internet users sent on social networks. In two days, the newspaper had to delete some 21,600 comments with offensive content, mainly on Instagram, compared to 700 per day normally. A « invasion » widely reported in the Brazilian press.

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In question, the review written by journalist Jacques Mandelbaum about the film I’m still here (I’m Still Here), by the Brazilian Walter Salles. The work, which traces the story of Rubens Paiva, a former left-wing deputy kidnapped and assassinated in 1971 by the military dictatorship, through the eyes of his wife Eunice, did not excite the journalist. This one deplores a film “hieratic” worn by a main actress, Fernanda Torres, “fairly monotonous”.

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