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Or maybe because other critical front-runners were not even nominated?
Did Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman cancel each other out?
Did the Globes not take Pamela Anderson seriously enough?
Fernanda Torres carries almost the entirety of Salless political thriller beneath the high-wire tension of her performance.
The parents understand the gravity of the countrys political situation.
Rubenss high profile as a politician, however, protects the family from the harsher cruelties of the regime.
This turns out to be the last time anybody in his family sees Rubens.
Soon, Eunice and her daughter Eliana (Luiza Kosovski) are also taken in.
There are rumors of his having escaped.
A former prisoner says they saw him.
A note in a prison ledger says he once asked for water.
But mostly, its a wall of silence.
The drama creeps in gradually, like a gray poison slowly infecting the air.
The constant home movies being shot by the kids will be tenderly screened in the final act.
Telling lines and telling moments will tellingly echo in later scenes, bringing things full circle.
Its a marvelously internalized performance, and one that we cant tear our eyes away from.
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