Fresh
As beautiful as it is wrenching.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Central Station
Between hope and solitude, two lives cross and reinvent themselves
1998 · 1h 51m · R
Drama
Directed by
Walter Salles
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Central Station
Overview
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Director and cast
- Walter Salles Director
- Fernanda Montenegro as Isadora 'Dora' Teixeira
- Vinícius de Oliveira as Josué Fontenele de Paiva
- Marília Pêra as Irene
- Othon Bastos as César
- Otávio Augusto as Pedrão
- Matheus Nachtergaele as Isaías Paiva
- Caio Junqueira as Moisés Paiva
- Stela Freitas as Yolanda
- Maria Menezes as Waitress
- Sergio Kato as Dora's Client
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie's success rests largely on the shoulders of Fernanda Montenegro, an actress who successfully defeats any temptation to allow sentimentality to wreck her relationship with the child.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
its blatantly manipulative pairing of an adorable young boy and a selfish, honesty-challenged older woman ... so calculating that I could never get emotionally involved.
Peter Brunette, Film.com
Fresh
It'll probably work better if you're not terribly familiar with the movies that inspired it.
Paul Tatara, CNN.com
Fresh
Salles directs simply and watchfully, with an eye that seems to penetrate all the characters who are encountered on Dora's and Josue's journey.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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