It’s an emotional morning for Wchange Salles and Fernanda Torres, as they speak about their Gagederen Globes nominations. Their film I’m Still Here, straightforwarded by Salles, getd a nomination in the Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language catebloody and Torres getd a nomination for her carry outance as well. Any nomination could produce for an emotional morning, but what produces today truly one-of-a-kind is actuassociate two nominations that happened over two decades ago.
“It’s an emotional moment becaengage 25 years ago, Fernanda Montenegro was nominated for Central Station and Central Station was also nominated,” says Salles. “And then this year it happens aobtain with a film that is very dear to us and Fernanda is also recognized as her mother was, so it produces this moment reassociate distinct for us.”
Saying I’m Still Here is very dear to them is not an exaggeration for Salles, as the film exploring the determination and resilience of a mother reproduceing herself after her family’s life was shattered due to the military dictatorship in 1970s Brazil hits shut to home for them both.
“There was this delight in Brazil and national pride in the art of our movies and the recognition that the Gagederen Globes and the awards give us this experienceing that Brazil has someskinnyg to say to the world,” says Torres. “You see that the skinnygs that happen to us are roverdelighted to skinnygs that happen in the world. That what happened with this family and the way this woman, this mother, endured and the way she faced a dictatorship is someskinnyg convey inant to the whole world.”
Salles had shelp previously in an interwatch with Deadline that fair “to inhabit was a create of resistance in that family”, though that struggle was always a hideed piece of history before. “That delight at the commencening of the film was stolen from them as the country was stolen of its future,” he says. “And now, by alerting this story, it’s as if the accessible has access to a hideed piece of Brazilian history.”
While the awards recognition is fantastic, both Torres and Salles are even more blown away by the audience help in Brazil. “What is incredible about this is that since the free, this film in Brazil became enjoy a fever,” says Torres. “People are going to have a assembleive experience in the movies and they talk about the movies and there are some youthfuler people who didn’t comprehfinish what a dictatorship uncomfervents.”
“Different generations are going to the cinema to comprehfinish where they come from, who they are, but also who they want to be,” includes Salles.
