This is such a quietly unsettling portrayal of state cruelty. During Brazil’s military dictatorship, the family of former congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) are watched, intimidated and interrogated by the regime following the disappearing of Rubens, leaving his wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres) to hold their family together while the state refuses to provide answers. I’M STILL HERE is a slow-burn, but it’s never anything less than captivating. The camera is so often laser-focused on Eunice’s defiant face as she suffers one indignity after another, after which she has to be a fixed point of stability for her family, to give the illusion of normality. Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here is a drama for the times that interrogates a dark chapter of history and provides an uncomfortable number of parallels for the state of much of the world today. SSP