Given Torres’s brilliant, understated performance and Salles’s deep understanding of what he’s trying to achieve, the film would stand as a shining, thoroughly convincing exception.

In this muscular but graceful performance, Torres shows us what resistance truly means.

[Fernanda] Torres encapsulates the many thoughts, meanings and motifs underlying the film in her resolute persona, and propels its narrative by her powerful presence.

True story of one of the "disappeared" in Brazil and his wife’s lifelong quest to find out what happened