the dark hours of the military dictatorship in Brazil revealed
A great film about oppression and the memory of Walter Salles, inspired by real events, “I'm Still Here” evokes the dark hours of the military dictatorship in Brazil. A film which is enjoying phenomenal success in a post-Bolsonaro Brazil where spectators, obviously, feel the need to question the history of their country.
Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles has not always convinced us. His Travel diaries (2003) recounting the wanderings across South America of the young Che Guevara in the 1950s were certainly pleasant to watch but anecdotal; and its adaptation of On the road (2012), Jack Kerouac's literary monument, was bogged down in off-topic melodramatic conventions.
