Central Station (1998)
(Central do Brasil)
Country: BRA/FR/SP/JAP
Technical: col 110m
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pêra, Vinícius de Oliveira
Synopsis:
In Rio's Central Station a retired schoolteacher supplements her income writing letters for the illiterate, only to callously hoard them in a drawer rather then post them. When the son of a client is orphaned, her life becomes dangerously but liberatingly bound up with his.
Review:
Bleak but ultimately epiphanous road movie of two unwanted souls who find their lost family in each other. The view of religion is unpatronisingly consumerist but at the same time exultant as it is the thread that binds so many desperate people. A classic example of how World Cinema embraces the neo-realist moral world view.
(Central do Brasil)
Country: BRA/FR/SP/JAP
Technical: col 110m
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pêra, Vinícius de Oliveira
Synopsis:
In Rio's Central Station a retired schoolteacher supplements her income writing letters for the illiterate, only to callously hoard them in a drawer rather then post them. When the son of a client is orphaned, her life becomes dangerously but liberatingly bound up with his.
Review:
Bleak but ultimately epiphanous road movie of two unwanted souls who find their lost family in each other. The view of religion is unpatronisingly consumerist but at the same time exultant as it is the thread that binds so many desperate people. A classic example of how World Cinema embraces the neo-realist moral world view.
(Central do Brasil)
Country: BRA/FR/SP/JAP
Technical: col 110m
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pêra, Vinícius de Oliveira
Synopsis:
In Rio's Central Station a retired schoolteacher supplements her income writing letters for the illiterate, only to callously hoard them in a drawer rather then post them. When the son of a client is orphaned, her life becomes dangerously but liberatingly bound up with his.
Review:
Bleak but ultimately epiphanous road movie of two unwanted souls who find their lost family in each other. The view of religion is unpatronisingly consumerist but at the same time exultant as it is the thread that binds so many desperate people. A classic example of how World Cinema embraces the neo-realist moral world view.