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I’m Still Here tempts viewers into a comforting lull before pulling the rug out from under them.

By David Sims

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The beginning of I’m Still Here is a careful trap.

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In the first 20 minutes of his new film, the director Walter Sallesintroduces the Paiva family, a vibrant Brazilian clan based in Rio de Janeiro. It’s 1970, and we watch the seven family members—Eunice (played by Fernanda Torres), Rubens (Selton Mello), and their five kids—eat, chatter, hit the beach, and go dancing. Their bond feels palpably warm and realistic, a comforting lull that Salles is tempting the audience into.

Despite knowing that the story is based on wrenching, real-life events, I started to hope against hope that maybe nothing too plotty would happen—that instead, I would just get to spend a couple of hours with t 20 Inspiring Kids Movies That Your Kids Will Love to Watch ... CYK