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No offense (really) but, like so many people said, somethings you have to see or at least feel the memories. My grandfather was from MDB (the authorized opposition to the government regime) and my family tells me that they hide some political fugitives. Whenever I hear/watch/read about this time i always feel like I'm suffocating a bit. I think that's what they felt, this constant watcher, always ready to punish.

I think it'll win. It's best than Interest zone that won last year.

Very good film❤

7/10 lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Fernanda Torres deserves all the awards she’s nominated and also those stolen from her mom 24 years ago!

Caro Nathaniel Ahart, espero que tenha o botão do 'Google Translate' pra você entender meu comentário. Sobre a sua opinião de que o filme se torna pouco urgente na segunda metade, isso se evidencia pela busca angustiante de Eunice em saber o que aconteceu com seu marido, Rubens, mas também no impacto que isso trouxa à sua família. Não é um filme para retratar a violência explícita da Ditadura Militar, mas justamente o vazio existencial que deixa na família de quem foi capturado por ela. E um vazio não é urgente, um vazio é algo que te limita, que te desacelera, que te faz viver "um dia de cada vez". E isso é, realmente, muito lento por ser uma coisa impossível de se retirar. A agonia silenciosa de Eunice Paiva se faz pela necessidade de ver sua família bem, mesmo dentro daquele mar de horrores da ausência do pai, da dificuldade financeira, da mudança de padrão de vida. Quanto aos avanços de tempo, é porque toda a trama do filme é a "busca". Primeiramente a busca por Rubens Paiva e, depois, na impossibilidade de tê-lo novamente, a busca por respostas. E essas respostas só vieram, de fato, em 1996 e um esclarecimento final em 2014. Saudações!

There’s a great difference between the American way of making movies , and the Brazilian way. Brazilian movies are about realism , the more realistic the dialogues and the scenes are , the more we like it , it’s raw and not over dramatic , Hollywood has it’s own parameters, it’s all about grandiosity and shocking the audience, there’s always catchy/sarcastic lines in dialogues , and there’s always the need of a final lesson to take from the narrative. I’m not saying one is better than the other , it’s just two very different ways of telling stories.

it won't win of course...? oi ???? Impressionante como a profundidade, tensão e singeleza dentro de um contexto único e desenhadas tão lidamente nunca serão apreciadas nem ao menos entendidas por uma cultura tão pobre e limitada. O que falta aí, derrama aqui. Pena que a gente não aproveita tanto. Obrigado Ainda Estou Aqui por permitir que mergulhemos.

Just watched this yesterday. I cried a lot of times since the beginning. It’s tense and sad when you dont know the historical moment, a happy family broken up. But for us, that lived through it, or were born after but heard stories from our parents and learned about it in school, it hurts. And it hurts because it’s fresh and it’s shameful. There was no real closure. Yes, democracy came back (and since then has had its ups and downs), but people still ask for the dictatorship to come back. So many families never got to bury their loved ones or even know how or why they died. And no one paid for it. We never went after the criminals who killed and tortured innocent people. I think it was great they focused on her and her strength in living after losing so much (her husband, her sense of self, her sense of safety), and it’s great people are learning a little about what happened to us. I wish there was a way to say how we got there and who financed it (one guess!). Eunice lost Rubens and then had to live another 14 years in the dictatorship. And she still had strength to fight for others, like he was doing it. She had felt in so many ways how cruel the regime was and she went back for more. Imagine smiling because you finally have a death certificate for your husband who has been dead for longer than you were married. 25 years later. Just a piece of paper. For us, it’s gut wrenching, because even in the first minutes, they are happy but we knew it wouldnt last. All the plans made, all the promises, talking about the end of the regime, of getting back what they lost. You became almost as paranoid as Eunice, just wainting for it to come. And like them, you couldnt even process that was the last time you were gonna see Rubens. No way to say goodbye. He was going to answer questions and then he was gone for 25 years without so much as the acknowledgement of his death.

Masterpiece.

the best movie

I'm a brazilian and feel people are on the hype and hyper-sensitive to any criticism to it... It is a good movie with great acting from Fernanda Torres. When i left the cinema i had the same impression: the first 30 minutes are impeccable, great, dynamic and then... independent of the seriousness and good moments, the pace got strange. The transitions between periods were dry, and broke the tension that they brewed on the first part. The movie, at least for me, should've ended at the end of the first act and those 2 other periods seemed like a post-credit. They present loads of info in a new context that does not get explored or connected well... Nevertheless, i understand the need to document what happened and give the whole story. But i feel even though people don't admit it, we are too excited to have a recent movie that is able to become Oscar material, people just refuse to cast any form of criticism even though to criticize is not hating or "ruining the movie reputation". I liked it, i would say it is a 7.5/10 would watch again but i don't think it will be rewatchable like "central station", or even "aquarius"

Acting was great very boring should be shorter but important message.

The lack of urgency is because we all know (here in Brazil) that justice is a failure, and she (Eunice) would never gain anything from it, just headaches, more pain and suffering. So in the end, it doesn't even matter.

This film is spectacular

Some mounths ago, we had many brazilians asking for military intervention or returning of dictatorship. Its awful to think we could be living these days again nowadays! This film is not only a drama, but also an horror picture for us!

It's interesting that you said it lacked tension because for me that's exactly what hit me the most. Like, we know the history: the "disappearance" of Rubens Paiva and the atrocities committed during the dictatorship are things we learn in school. We know what probably happened, and there are plenty of other documentaries and movies that show the violence more explicitly. Most of us knew from the start, from the date that was shown on screen and the first time the surname was mentioned, what was going to happen. What truly makes this movie resonate though, and probably also what makes it difficult for a foreigner to understand, is how realistic the family, the reactions, the consequences are depicted. It makes you see this family, that was just like yours at the time, and see it destroyed senselessly, and then be held together by sheer willpower and tireless, monotonous, *constant* effort for months, years, decades. This isn't a story to gawk at and be shocked by and get catharsis from. There aren't any closeups of violence or desperate screams or the wailing crying and room destruction that the oscars love so much. There is a quiet dispair, and understanding and acception of what happened, and a gathering of strength by Eunice and the oldest daughters to protect the others. That's the reality, that's what a lot of us or our parents remember. The silence, the doubt, the moving on without being able to actually do so because nothing was even confirmed. To give a personal note, which maybe of some help understanding: my mom lived in such a similar situation to them that the Paivas could literally have been my family, she was almost the same age as the youngest (Maria Beatriz) at the time and had 3 older siblings, and if we had been a little less lucky that could've been my grandfather as well. Rubens acts exactly like he did, they dressed the same, had similar social lives and manners of speaking and all, the kids had the same hobbies and activities, they even also had a little plot of land away from the city where my grandpa built a little house for them the way they wanted. It's so personal already, and nobody from my immediate family was even "disappeared"; you can imagine how much closer it is for those who went through that. And what you're left with isn't an intense hatred or a shining moment of pain, but a dull, everlasting emptiness, missing someone without closure, not being able to properly say goodbye to them because the government won't admit it. You're left with heavy silence, lying and hiding things from the kids, worrying if the people around you are spying on you. And you have to go on despite all that. That's the reality of it, and that's why the whole cinema was crying for the last hour of the movie. Because we can see ourselves in Eunice and in the family, because it's all so real. And that's also why we're so protective of this movie

I'm Brazilian and I agree with you. Despite I love the actors so much, I missed more context about the climate in Brazil in that period of time, beyond the southern zone of Rio, and at least in flashback scenes, Rubens' performance as a congressman. He was a member of the PTB and supported Jango's reforms and has made memorable speeches against repression. There are audios on RUclips. It's a story that needs to be told and retold because there is a whole apparatus to distort the facts, as the military dictatorship did back then.

Brazil It’s Back

This is movie about Brasil, but I hope other people can get it too

O filme estreou aqui no Brasil na última semana e se tornou um fenômeno de público. Assisti ontem e me emocionei demais. Parabéns pelo seu trabalho. Ganhou um escrito. Saudações!!

I was really anxious to see how this movie would reach foreigners, and your review was super honest and relatable.

I'm still here is the better film of 2024.

My grandfather was captured by this same military ductatoship so this is real... When he returned, he was speechless about it. We never knew exactly what happened there. Many people say that the crimes that happens daily in our country are a reflection of this period. Thanks for your analysis!

Thank you for your review! The book from Eunice's son, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, tells more about the terrible methods of the brazilian dictatorship regarding his father assassination but I think the choices made by the writers were perfect. It's a human story after all. We have other and equally powerfull movies (from the past and present) that bring to the newer generations an overview of that period.

Without the slightest doubt, one of the best films of all time. Fernanda Montegro only needed 2 seconds of screen time to make a full theater cry and Fernanda Torres delivers one of the most brilliant works an actress could do. An extremely necessary film to not leave the past forgotten and remind us that the fight for and maintenance of democracy must be constant!!!

❤❤❤

eisenberg is pretty good in this. I would say better than culkin

Good movie, good actors, good art at all; but, as brazilian, i just can't suport that type o storie anymore, is always the same thing

I’m hoping to finally watch this late tonight. You can guarantee that you will be getting a review out of me lol. Side note, Beck and Woods did write the screenplay for A Quiet Place, so this isn’t their first critical success.

It's the second review that i've seen from north americans. You guys are giving 7/10 for the movie, because its nothing groundbreaking or it doesnt have a backgorund, or it doesnt have a sense of urgency. Giving you a little context, thats exactly what Walter wanted it. Silence. Tension. Moving on without knowing. our relatives just disappeared and we couldn't speak freely, as everything was considered confronting the system. Another thing: we have a lot of movies of the torture, of the fights, our rebel groups resisted and were crushed (almost like spy movies and action). Few survived, our president Dilma was a revolutionary warrior who, to this day, has her jaw out of place due to torture. She doesn't talk about it. Just like my father resigned from the army 6 months after he joined so as not to torture riverside dwellers in the Amazon (he doesn't talk about that either). The focus of the narrative was the quiet way that the relatives had to move on. Silence. Fewr. To live in fear. To fight other batles. Eunice is a heroine for us just like Rubens. Just like my father.

I also wasn't a fan of the structure, but personally I'm really picky with pacing and structure. I feel like all the right parts were there but needed to be sewn up in a different way. Even so, i cried a lot and LOVED the movie.

They just uncovered a plan of a black ops branch of the military to kidnap the democratic elect president and a supreme court judge, so I think that really weighed on me as I watched it as a Brazilian. I’m glad you had nice thoughts of some moments in it though! Fernanda Torres is known for her comedy here, so this role was a spectacular surprise.

I watched the movie here, in Brazil. in my point of view, this movie was made for brazilians don't forget what happens with all families during the dictactoship, in a moment when the "traditional wave" are influencing the brazilians to want it back. :/

O que retrata no filme é leve perto do que foi planejado recentemente quando pretendiam assassinar um ministro e transformar o brasil numa sangrenta ditadura, de novo.

Pa un ocu do Oscar

I think, as a brazilian, for me, personally, that this movie is doing an incredible job helping to remind people of those horrible times. Far ritght extremists are in a ferocious campaign to deny the dictatorship period and it's consequences but no we will never forget neither forgive. This has been more evident in 2023's attempted coup, in Brasilia, our capital. This movie is already a winner, in so many ways. Anisitia é o caralho.

It's interesting seeing a foreigner reviewing this movie. Like many (if not all) comments, I'm also brazilian and it just hits different for us. I don't think you *need* to have lived through something for it to connect with you, but I do recognize that it does make a difference and, in my opinion, taking into consideration the state of the world right now, what we see on screen speak volumes. It's terrifying to think that all of that could happen again. My parents remember the military dictatorship, that is a scar marked on their mind forever and it impacted on their decisions and the way they educated me and my sister. Always good to see our art travelling the world. Walter Salles is one of my favorite directors and Fernanda Torres was brilliant. As you said, she conveys so much with only her facial expressions. It was an extraordinary experience watching it in the theater, it felt like everyone there was connected.

As a Brazilian, this film is wonderful and incredible. Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello are my favorite actors. Fernanda Torres is well known here in Brazil for her role in comedies, so much so that she became a meme on the internet for her roles on Brazilian TV and her comedic interviews. Selton Mello is a versatile actor, he is one of the best cartoon voice actors, I will never forget when he dubbed some films for Disney in Portuguese. The film is precious and touching for Brazilians, perhaps for other people the film cannot touch our hearts as much as it did.

Though I think this movie will hit many people, as it's very powerful, it was made for Brazilians and it does depend on our context for a full understanding. The jump to 2014, for example, is very important, but it's hard to know that if you didn't grow up knowing abt the amnesty and then saw the Commission of Truth be implemented during Dilma's presidency.

i think this film will never hit the gringos as hard as it hits for us brazilians, only we understand every single word that is being said, the pain, the history, the culture. my grandfather was exiled and inprisoned for being part of the rebel party, coincidentally my grandmother is called eunice as well, and my mom was a child at that time and she remembers eunice and rubens stories being told on tv.

Great review, Nathaniel! This film communicates a lot with brazilians, as it was a period of great sadness for our people. And, I dont know if you know, part of our people has been calling for a return to the military dictatorship. So, somehow, “they are still here”. Thanks for the great review

"Japan, a backward country, huh? Your country has no room to talk either. Just so you know, there’s no evidence for this incident. There’s no hidden evidence covered up by the government, either. It’s all just her imagination. People outside Japan are totally fooled just because she’s attractive and speaks fluent English. It’s utterly ridiculous."

Sorry, the dictatorship is not the most important in the screenplay. It's Eunice.

This movie is one of the strongest contender of the Best Animated Feature. See i told you this movie is a masterpiece that's why its in my current Top 5 picks for the nominees. 😁😁💙💙

Nice review... interesting to see that a man like yourself can't believe that a conventional attractive man like Antonia Banderas can't be fully satisfying to a woman. She needed clearly more powerplay, more tension to feel satisfied. And you can be very good-looking but if you bore a woman she won't feel happy in the end. Well at least the woman Nicole Kidman plays in this film: a woman with power who needs some power struggle. My guess is that men and women will react differently to this film. Some men will feel insulted when a generic attractive man can't satisfy a successful woman while some women will understand it fully. Most men think than women are easily satisfied just by men having their hair cut on time, keeping the door open en bring flowers once in a while and do their trick in the bedroom. This film shows that it takes more than that 😀

Yeah, like you said on Letterboxd we’re pretty much lockstep on this one. My score is leaning closer to 4/5 as opposed to 3/5. At the end of the day, this movie made me uncomfortable in all the right ways. I appreciate it for that!

Ijust saw Juror No 2 Blitz Conclave And theb Anora today. Blitz is so dull and lifeless. It meanders too much and Ronan feels like a conplete wasted opportunity. Shes incredible in the Outrun and this just felt like a namecheck casting when she couldve been utilized so much better

I’m curious to hear if, while watching Juror#2, you saw any comparison with Nicholas Hoult to a 90’s era Tom Cruise from The Firm and A Few Good Men era? While watching the trailer of this film, that’s the first thing that came to mind, when seeing Nicholas and hearing his line delivery in the trailer.