Walk: AMC Kabuki
Distance: 3.5 miles
Yesterday was such a disappointing day for Ciwt's football team favorites, today she headed off to a movie to move on. And, happily, she was not at all disappointed with the quality of I'm Still Here, the Brazilian film nominated for two Oscars.
The lead actress, Fernanda Torres, is in virtually every scene of the 2 hr, 16 minute movie and is suberb in every moment. She - and Eunice Paiva, the real life woman she played - are the soul of dignity, grace and courage as they endure the most devastating of circumstances. First her husband's essential kidnap by the police, then her own, then raising five children alone and working tirelessly for decades to seek justice for herself and her family. Torres won the Best Actress at Cannes and the Golden Globes and is now nominated for an Academy Award which she richly deserves if she gets it.
In the hands of a different director such a story could be a melodramatic weepie or political diatribe. Instead Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, and Central Station) presents his audience with something much more human, heartfelt and moving. His movie is shot in the true, vivid colors of beautiful Rio de Janeiro, in the very respectable homes and offices of its samll group of upper middle class individuals. Every character is nicely and truly developed, naturally attractive, well presented, and living life as best they could in the face of despair - just as they really were. (The script is developed from a book by Paiva's own son). The result is an unembellished, deeply moving, true life view of the human spirit at work presented by the most indelible of actresses.
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