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An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story but whose truth is it?

2025-03-15 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling

History comes to the living room, said the author Philip Roth, summing up the ideal of all historical fiction, which is to show how big events impact daily lives and real people. Roth was specifically talking about his own later novels (American Pastoral; I Married a Communist) but his description applies just as easily to Im Still Here, an outside bet to scoop this years Best International Feature Oscar. Directed by Walter Salles, the veteran Brazilian filmmaker behind Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, it spins the tale of the true-life Paiva family whose happy, middle-class existence is upended by the countrys military dictatorship. In this case, it transpires, history comes not only to the living room but the downstairs hall, the kitchen and the kids bedrooms as well.Salless drama is adapted from a book by Marcelo Paiva, the familys eldest son. But its also based on the directors first-hand experience. Salles knew the Paivas as a child, was a frequent guest at the...


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