Read The Screenplay For Walter Salles Movie

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay sequence that includes the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest motion pictures continues with I’m Still Here, Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles‘ private political drama from Brazil that simply made the Oscar shortlist within the Best International Feature class.

Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega co-wrote the screenplay based mostly on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir of the identical identify set throughout Brazil’s navy dictatorship within the early Seventies. The central determine is Paiva’s mother Eunice, a mom of 5 who’s compelled to reinvent herself and her household after her husband Rubens, a politician and engineer who opposed the regime, turned one of many authorities’s desaparecidos (the disappeared), and was tortured and killed.

For Salles, the Portuguese-language movie is private: As a child knew the Paivas and was pals with their youngsters, with the household’s Rio seashore home, which was open to all, one he spent many a day at listening to political discourse and music — an oasis of free thought in a repressive regime. “Their house remains etched in my memory,” he says.

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The story, he says, turned extra pressing as “during the past seven years we spent creating I’m Still Here life in Brazil veered dangerously close to that past,” he mentioned, including, “In 2021, a president awarded medals of honor to torturers from that era. This film, conceived before the Bolsonaro years, unfortunately seems not only a film about a past gone by but also a film about the dangers of new forms of authoritarianism that threaten Brazil – not to mention the world.”

I’m Still Here reunites Salles together with his Oscar-nominated Central Station and Foreign Land star Fernanda Montenegro and her daughter Fernanda Torres, with whom the filmmaker has labored a number of instances. Selton Mello additionally stars.

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Sony Pictures Classics, which launched Central Station, acquired I’m Still Here out of the Cannes market and world premiered it at Venice, the place it obtained a 10-minute ovation and received Salles the director prize and Hauser and Lorega the screenplay prize. It has grow to be a field workplace hit in Brazil, grossing $10.7 million within the house market by Sunday, making it the 12 months’s prime title there. It hits U.S. theaters by way of SPC on January 17 after choosing up a pair of Golden Globe nominations (for International Movie and for Torres), and a Critics Choice nom.

Hauser and Lorega, each with theater credit to their identify, beforehand teamed to write down Karim Aïnouz’s Mariner of the Mountains (2021) after Hauser wrote Cannes’ 2019 Un Certain Regard Grand Prix winner Invisible Life.

Read their script under.