John Powers
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The counterweight to the dictatorship is the unglamorous strength of Eunice, who goes from making soufflés to becoming at 48 a lawyer who helps make Brazil a better place to live. She's played with surpassing brilliance by Torres, whose performance is so subtle, so internal, and so quietly shattering, that in a just world, she'd win all this year's big acting awards.
The counterweight to the dictatorship is the unglamorous strength of Eunice, who goes from making soufflés to becoming at 48 a lawyer who helps make Brazil a better place to live. She's played with surpassing brilliance by Torres, whose performance is so subtle, so internal, and so quietly shattering, that in a just world, she'd win all this year's big acting awards.
Registering each flicker of emotion as precisely as a seismograph, Torres captures Eunice's pain and horror at her husband's fate, but also her endurance, her faith that life goes on. a faith that time vindicates. Even as it's buffeted by misfortune, the family survives and thrives. At one point, a newspaper photographer comes to take a picture of the family and tells them to look somber.
Registering each flicker of emotion as precisely as a seismograph, Torres captures Eunice's pain and horror at her husband's fate, but also her endurance, her faith that life goes on. a faith that time vindicates. Even as it's buffeted by misfortune, the family survives and thrives. At one point, a newspaper photographer comes to take a picture of the family and tells them to look somber.
Registering each flicker of emotion as precisely as a seismograph, Torres captures Eunice's pain and horror at her husband's fate, but also her endurance, her faith that life goes on. a faith that time vindicates. Even as it's buffeted by misfortune, the family survives and thrives. At one point, a newspaper photographer comes to take a picture of the family and tells them to look somber.
After all, Rubens is missing. But Eunice insists that everyone smile. She will not let them face the world looking beaten.
After all, Rubens is missing. But Eunice insists that everyone smile. She will not let them face the world looking beaten.
After all, Rubens is missing. But Eunice insists that everyone smile. She will not let them face the world looking beaten.
They tell me you want to be a picture maker. Um, yes sir, I do. Why? This business, it'll rip you apart. Well, Mr. Ford, I... So what do you know about art, kid?
They tell me you want to be a picture maker. Um, yes sir, I do. Why? This business, it'll rip you apart. Well, Mr. Ford, I... So what do you know about art, kid?
They tell me you want to be a picture maker. Um, yes sir, I do. Why? This business, it'll rip you apart. Well, Mr. Ford, I... So what do you know about art, kid?
Walk over to it. Well, what's in it? Describe it.
Walk over to it. Well, what's in it? Describe it.
Walk over to it. Well, what's in it? Describe it.