On Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here”

Still from “I Am Still Here.”

Journalist and writer Paulo Carneiro, a friend from our long youth, invited me by email to write about “I’m still here”. And in this way I introduce myself below.

The film’s excellences have layers that, when speaking about them, may seem like timid restrictions on the part of this author. In the first of them, I observe: we are so poor in films about the pain of the dictatorship that we see ourselves represented on the cinema screen. In the second,...