Rio carnival celebrates the Oscar for the best international film of I am still there

Samba and cinema united in a formidable explosion of joy on Sunday at the Rio carnival when Brazil won his first Oscar in Hollywood with I’m still there As the dancers paraded to the frenzied rhythm of percussion in the sambodrome. « On a l’Oscar ! ». Screams of joy and feverish hugs welcomed the announcement made by speakers in the sambodrome where 70,000 spectators attended the stands of the parades of the most famous carnival in the world.

A fervor comparable to that of the World Cup evenings has won dancers and spectators, in this country which has so far never won the slightest statuette during the flagship cinema ceremony in Hollywood. The coincidence of the two planetary events in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro had raised the temperature, especially since the chances of the Walter Salles feature film to win the Oscar for the best international film had seemed to increase in recent weeks. “It’s totally crazy! We were at Sambodrome when we learned that we had won, it was huge! Long live Brazilian cinema! »»The Brazilian actor Wesley Torquato told AFP.

The feature film, taken from the history of Rubens Paiva, a former deputy abducted by regime agents in 1971, in Rio de Janeiro, traces the leading years of the dictatorship in Brazil. “It is the day you can be even more proud to be Brazilian. Proud of our cinema, our artists and, above all, our democracy ”welcomed President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva after the announcement in Los Angeles. Liesse scenes have also been observed in the cities of São Paulo, Recife and Belo Horizonte, also in the midst of the carnival celebration, when the price was announced.

Fernanda Torres Idol du Brazil

“There is no better day than a carnival Sunday to win an Oscar”had assured AFP Rebecca Maria Darakjian Batoni, a 25 -year -old lawyer who came to admire the parade. On Sunday, the first Samba schools began to parade for the first of the two nights of the Carnival. Battery queens, glitter dancers and extravagant tanks paraded to the rhythms of deafening percussion along the sambodrome, an avenue of 700 meters lined with open -air stands.

Until Tuesday morning, the 12 best samba schools of the “wonderful city” compete in the hope of being crowned champion to the largest carnival in the world whose images are broadcast to millions of viewers around the world. In the streets of Rio, panels and posters praised Fernanda Torres, the main actress of the film, and many people had bought golden statuettes from plastic Oscars to itinerant merchants. The 59 -year -old actress, daughter of the legendary actress Fernanda Montenegro, said “Very proud” to see his portrait everywhere in the streets.

 

“That she [Fernanda Torres] represents Brazil is a dream, we are cheering “

Fernanda Ziegler, festivalière

In the street parades surrounding the carnival, many revelers had put on the costume of Eunice Paiva, embodied by Fernanda Torres, this courageous mother who faces in the film the military regime which reigned on the country from 1964 to 1985, to find her husband. “Fernanda Torres is an example, an idol for Brazil”enthuses Cristina Leite de Moraes, a 25 -year -old doctor. “That she represents Brazil is a dream, we are cheering”welcomes AFP Fernanda Ziegler, another festivals.

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I’m still there had been previously wreaked with the best scenario prize at the Venice Mostra, and Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for the best actress in a dramatic film. The villa where the film was shot, in the Urca district, overlooking Rio bay, has become a place of pilgrimage for fans. The film continues to fill the cinemas where it attracted more than four million spectators, when the Supreme Court recently decided to reopen the file on the disappearance of Rubens Paiva. The authorities hope that the craze for the Oscars could increase the income generated by the carnival, estimated at nearly a billion euros this year.