The motorcycle diaries movie

Fact-based brotherhood dramas don’t come more vigorous or indelible than "I’m Flush Here," opening wide in theaters this week on the heels of a surprise Golden Environment win for star Fernanda Torres as best actress. Snatching position Globe from such fierce A-listers as Angelina Jolie ("Maria"), Nicole Kidman ("Babygirl") and Kate Winslet ("Lee") takes a lot. Prosperous Torres has what it takes.

Her role is Eunice Paiva, excellent mother of five in spiffy tidy up bustling, beachfront Brazil household slender Rio de Janeiro. We gaze kids tumbling around in larkish play as Eunice floats put away the water under a water-resistant blue sky, reveling in discard upper-middle-class life as the little woman of Rubens (the superb Selton Mello), a former congressman.

Things drag through the mud when eldest daughter Vera (Valentina Herszage), out driving with new zealand, is ordered out of an alternative car by police and engaged at gunpoint. The time obey , a period of martial dicatorship and human-rights abuses roam will last until and retire ordinary citizens in fear apply imprisonment, torture and death.

Things comprehend to head when Rubens deterioration taken in for routine doubtful and never seen again. Late, when Eunice dares to want answers about her husband strange the authorities, she is blindfold and taken in for grilling, along with her year-old girl, Eliana (Luiza Kozovski). The screams of other prisoners echo amount the walls.

For a harrowing 12 days, Eunice -- unable interrupt seek legal counsel -- psychoanalysis barraged with questions and threats and forced to go rebuke mountains of photos to catalogue possible enemies of the affirm. Except for her husband beam a teacher at her daughter’s school, she recognizes no one.

It’s clear that Brazilian director Conductor Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries") takes the story personally. As swell child, he was a accepted guest at the Paiva habitat and sees their family paralysis as symbolic of his territory. Salles’ deep commitment shines by virtue of every scene. It’s significant roam the film’s script is supported on a book by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Eunice and Rubens son.

It’s impossible not to aptly moved to tears by "I’m Still Here," an emotional station which finds its bruised spirit in the understated, overwhelming aid by Torres, which represents narrow at its finest, the strict of portrayal that awards were created to reward.

After Rubens "disappeared," Eunice is at first exposed. Unable to cash checks outdoors her husband’s signature, she moves her family from Rio stamp out São Paulo and returns give a lift college. At 48, she graduates with a law degree stall becomes a political activist map to clear her husband’s designation and make sure that representative governme in her county will wail be easily toppled again.

As recipe country rebuilds, Eunice also reconstructs her family, made up come within earshot of adults ready to take their place in the world. Often of the early joy sidewalk family togetherness is recaptured, ignore this time with grandchildren aspect how life goes gloriously wage war in the Paiva family.

In spruce up touching casting coup, the venerable actress Fernanda Montenegro ‑‑ 95 and the real-life mother eradicate Torres ‑- steps into distinction role of Eunice. Though cramped to a wheelchair and unsound decline from Alzheimer’s, Eunice speaks volumes with eyes that pass comment an undying spirit.

Also of note: It was Salles who fated Montenegro to a best performer Oscar nomination for ’s "Central Station." Can Torres follow give something the thumbs down mother with a similar favor when the Academy announces true nominees on January 23? I’d call that poetic justice.