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Central Station

Original title: Central do Brasil · Turkish title: Merkez istasyonu

“Between hope and solitude, two lives cross and reinvent themselves”

1998 · 1 h 50 min
Directed by Walter Salles
Drama

Cast

Fernanda Montenegro Vinícius de Oliveira Marília Pêra

Credits

Written by: João Emanuel Carneiro

Plot

Dora, a retired teacher who writes letters for illiterate people at Rio de Janeiro's central railway station, and then throws many of them away, reluctantly takes a nine-year-old boy, Josué, whose mother has just been killed, on a trip to find his father in the Brazilian north-east. Walter Salles's 1998 film, with Fernanda Montenegro, is a touching road movie, and won the Golden Bear in Berlin.

Sinekatalog’s take

A bitter letter-writer in Rio takes a young boy to find his father. Walter Salles's road movie, with a superb Fernanda Montenegro, slowly softens into something deeply moving.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 8.0 / 10 (51,811 votes)
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