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Central do Brasil (Central Station)

This film is presented in Portuguese with English subtitles.

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“As beautiful as it is wrenching.” – Los Angeles Times

Brazilian director Walter Salles (director of this past year’s Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here) established himself as a beacon of modern Brazilian cinema with this Academy Award-nominated triumph, his third feature, starring an unforgettable Fernanda Montenegro as Dora, a cantankerous former schoolteacher who supports herself in Rio de Janeiro by helping illiterate clients write letters to their families — all while keeping their money and never sending the correspondence. When Josué(Vinícius de Oliveira), the nine-year-old son of one of her clients, is left orphaned after his mother dies in a bus accident, Dora reluctantly takes him in. Salles’ intuitive direction is on full display, particularly in his discovery of Vinícius de Oliveira, a former shoeshine boy who begged the director for the price of a sandwich, with performances that radiate tenderness, humor, and unexpected kindness as Dora and Josué traverse Rio and the countryside in search of his long-missing father.

O diretor brasileiro Walter Salles (diretor do indicado ao Oscar I’m Still Here do ano passado) consolidou-se como uma figura essencial do cinema brasileiro contemporâneo com este triunfo indicado à Academia, seu terceiro longa-metragem, protagonizado pela inesquecível Fernanda Montenegro no papel de Dora, uma ex-professora rabugenta que sobrevive no Rio de Janeiro escrevendo cartas para clientes analfabetos destinadas às suas famílias — embora, na realidade, ela fique com o dinheiro e nunca envie a correspondência. Quando Josué (Vinícius de Oliveira), o filho de nove anos de uma de suas clientes, fica órfão após a morte da mãe em um acidente de ônibus, Dora o acolhe a contragosto. A direção intuitiva de Salles brilha especialmente em sua descoberta de Vinícius de Oliveira, um ex-engraxate que lhe pediu dinheiro para um sanduíche e acabou estrelando o filme. As interpretações irradiam ternura, humor e uma inesperada bondade enquanto Dora e Josué percorrem o Rio e o interior do país em busca de seu pai desaparecido.

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  • Genre Drama
  • Director Walter Salles
  • Released 1998
  • Runtime 1h 50m
  • Rated R
  • Studio Sony Pictures Classics
  • CountryBrazil

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