Hello, I’m Walter Salles, and I’m the Director of “I’m Nonetheless Right here.” We’re half-hour into the movie, within the household residence on the coronary heart of the story. Eunice Paiva is portrayed by Fernanda Torres and Rubens Paiva by Selton Mello. Every part right here conveys a way of normalcy: the sunshine, the sounds from the seaside, the intimacy of the dialogue. However then this concord is damaged by the invasion of the home, by army police. Now hand-held, the digicam relays the instability of the state of affairs, pulsing with the characters. Rubens is instructed that he might be taken for an interrogation. He tries to feign that the state of affairs is below management, however we sense it’s not. For the primary time within the movie, Eunice’s vulnerability surfaces. It’s from right here that Eunice’s arc begins to take form. From this level onward, the whole scene revolves round subtraction. Subtraction of sunshine because the curtains are shut, subtraction of sounds from the surface. Subtraction of music. When one of many couple’s 5 children, Nalu, enters the home with a good friend, each Eunice and the army officers attempt to fake that normalcy nonetheless exists, however it now not does. Nalu, performed by Barbara Luz, leads us to the daddy’s room. It’s an important scene, the final dialog between a father and his daughter, staged as the true Nalu instructed me it occurred. There’s a wierd intimacy on this alternate, underlined by the daughter’s affection and the daddy’s need to extend this second. After which we perceive why the intimacy was illusory. That is an improv created on the spot with actor Luiz Bertazzo He begins to peek into the household’s intimacy. Moments like this breathe life into the sequence. Rubens reappears, getting ready to be taken away for questioning. He tries as soon as once more to create a way of ordinariness. Right here, the final embrace between Rubens and Eunice is framed by the army officers, emphasizing a way of suffocation in what was as soon as a secure place, the household home. That is the primary of the one two close-ups in the whole movie. We saved it for the final look between Rubens and Eunice. From right here on, we’re along with her. “I’m Nonetheless Right here” turns into her movie.
