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Central Station (1998)

Central Station poster
Original title
Central do Brasil
Directed by
Walter Salles
Genre
drama film
Country
Brazil, France
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
L
Rating
8.1 of 10 from 1,055 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A lonely retired schoolteacher writes letters for illiterate people at a Rio de Janeiro train station. After a tragic event, she reluctantly takes a young boy on a journey across Brazil to find his absent father.

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What happens

Central Station (Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 road drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein, based on an original idea by Salles. It stars Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira. The film tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. Central Station premiered in Switzerland on 16 January 1998, in Brazil on 3 April, and in France on 2 December. The film received critical acclaim, with Montenegro's performance earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (becoming the first Brazilian actor to ever be nominated in the lead actress category on both awards), while the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the Golden Bear at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted Central Station the 11th greatest Brazilian film of all time, in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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