Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…

Best Films of 2024
#4. I’m Still Here

One of the last award season movies I caught up with, Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, turned out to be one of the very best.

The film depicts the family of real-life Brazilian congressman Rubens Paiva, who was disappeared by the country’s military dictatorship in 1971. Matriarch Eunice, played by the remarkable Fernanda Torres, relentlessly pursues the truth behind her husband’s fate while raising their five children.

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