Supposed family idyll: The Paivas are victims of arrests and torture.
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When the former Member of the congregation Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) was arrested in Brazil in December 1971 during the military dictatorship, the officials of his family say that he would soon be released. But it was only a quarter of a century later that his wife Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) and her five children receive the official notification by the government that the social democratic politician was tortured and murdered immediately after his arrest.
“Forever here”, who won the Oscar as the best international film this year, tells this story from the perspective of the Paiva family in a stirring and disturbing, almost two and a half hours of film, which takes the audience from the first to the last minute. Walter Salles Film is based on Marcelo Paiva’s autobiographical book, published in 2015, the son of the abducted politician, whose whereabouts the family knew nothing about it for years.
Director Walter Saller, himself a friend of the children of the Paiva family, said they spent a lot of time in their house. His film “Forever here” not only impresses with the political reappraisal of the time when a right Junta Brazil ruled from the mid -1960s to the mid -1980s, but with the sensitive and personal narrative, which stages the family cosmos of the Paiva’s extremely alive.
The wife of the politician, who was deposed by the Junta as a congress in the mid -1960s and helped politically persecuted shortly before his arrest, but had nothing to do with the armed resistance of that time was also arrested and interrogated for days. The adolescent daughter was also kidnapped by the military, but soon released again.
“Forever here” shows how the Junta puts the Paiva family in fear and panic. In addition, the paivas are left in uncertain about the whereabouts of their arrested family. Is he coming back? Where is he? Does he still live? What do the authorities admit and what do you deny? How does the mother manage to hold the family together?
Since the man is missing, she can suddenly no longer withdraw money from the shared account. The actually middle -class family rushes into the bankruptcy. The eldest daughter went to London before the father’s father was arrested with friends of the family who operated a left publisher and bookstore, but then returns. “Forever here”, this family, their excursions to the beach, the love of music, the football tricks on the doorstep and the lifestyle of the 1970s revives. Until the brutality of the dictatorship breaks into this family cosmos with destructive violence.
Similar to the Paivas, many other people in Brazil also felt at that time. Thousands were kidnapped at the time, disappeared into torture cellars and were murdered. At the same time, the 1970s in Brazil are considered an economic boom period. German companies in particular invested a lot in the country at the time, among other things, VW played an inglorious role in São Paulo. According to research by NDR, SWR and “Süddeutscher Zeitung” from 2017, the subsidiary of the subsidiary “VW do Brasil” has been working with the Junta and delivered workers to the authorities, for which the group now also paid compensation.
“Forever here” shows the very banal everyday life of the parents and adolescents in Rio de Janeiro. There are military controls at all corners. In the barracks farm, where Eunice Paiva finally picks up her husband’s car, police officers tuned in songs in which tearful assembly and the skulls of political opponents they have chosen are sung. Sometimes it is hard to endure.
Over the years, Rubens Paiva became one of the best known “disappeared” in Brazil, which had to do with the commitment of his wife, which was not intimidated, instead accepted a study of law that she completed at the age of 49 and continued to deal with the crime of military dictatorship.
Fernanda Torres already received a Golden Globe for her great representation of the Eunice Paiva and was also nominated for the Oscar as the best female leading actress. The shooting of “Forever here” began in Brazil during Jair Bolsonaro’s tenure. This gives this great and disturbing film a scary topicality. Director Walter Saller commented on this in the summer in Venice with the words: »When I see what happens in Hungary, which may soon happen again in the United States, which will happen in so many different places in the world. It is a time of fear in which we live. ”This is exactly why this film is more important than ever over the 1970s and he tells an empowering story about people full of fear who still fight fascism.
“Forever here”: Brazil/France 2024. Director: Walter Salles. Book: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega. With Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro. 135 min. Start: 13.3.
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