How a Family’s Life Is Upended in ‘I’m Still Here’ | Anatomy of a Scene

hi I'm Walter sales and I'm the director of I'm still here we are 30 minutes into the film in the family home at the heart of the story Unis Piva is portrayed by Fernanda Tores and Ruben spiva by ston Melo everything here conveys a sense of normaly the light the sounds from the beach the intimacy of the dialogue but then dis Harmon is broken by the invasion of the house by military police now hanel the camera relays the instability of the situation pulsing with the characters hings is told that he will be taken for an

interrogation he tries to Fain that the situation is under control but we sense it's not no for the first time in the film un's vulnerability surfaces it is from here that un's Arc begins to take shape from this point onward the entire scene revolves around subtraction subtraction of light as the curtains are shot subtraction of sounds from the outside subtraction of music when one of the couple's five kids nalo enters the house with a friend both unisi and the Military Officers try to pretend that noraly still exists but it no longer does nalo played by

Barbara Louis leads us to the father's room it's a vital scene the last conversation between a father and and his daughter staged as the real nalo told me it happened there's a strange Intimacy in this exchange underlined by the daughter's affection and the father's desire to prolong this moment and then we understand why the intimacy was ilary this is an improv created on the spot with actor Louis bero he begins to Peak into the family's intimacy moments like this breathe life into the sequence ruin reappears preparing to be taken away for questioning he tries once

again to create a sense of ordinariness here the less Embrace between hubis and unisi is framed by the Military Officers emphasizing a sense of Suffocation in what was once a safe place the family house youment this is the first of the only two close-ups in the entire film we saved it for the last glance between hubin and unisi from here on we are with her I'm still here Becomes Her film [Music]