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Release Date: 13 July, 1999 Retail Price: $27.95 OUR Price: $24.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: |
Central Station Reviews
In a nutshell, recommended...
Just in case you are in a hurry, I will begin this review in a non-traditional way, that is by the end. So, in a nutshell, I believe that "Central Station" is an excellent Brazilian film that you are highly likely to enjoy.
The reasons for that opinion are many. Are you interested in them? Well:
1- To start with, the plot is engaging. There are two main characters. One of them is Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), a somewhat cynic retired teacher that earns money writing letters for illiterate people in Rio de Janeiro?s Central Station. The other main character is Josue (Vinicius de Oliveira), a young boy who meets Dora when his mother pays her to write a letter to Josue?s long lost father, someone that Josue longs to meet but that lives far away. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Josue ends up under Dora?s wing. The question is, will Dora help him to pursue his dream of meeting his father?
2- Secondly, this film is directed by Walter Salles. If you have already watched another of his films, no further explanations are needed. If you haven?t, it is hight time you did. I specially recommend you to start with "Behind the sun" (= "Abril despeda?ado") and "The Motorcycle Diaries" :)
3- Finally, "Central Station" has a talented cast that lightens the screen, and that makes justice to a story that we wouldn?t appreciate so much if the film had actors not capable of expressing so well the nuances of what their characters are feeling.
All in all, recommended :)
Belen Alcat
An essential film in your collection!
The initial sequence o the film is loaded of tragic grandiloquence; woman `s job in a railroad station consists in writing letters to beloved familiars or dear friends dictated by analphabet people. She is somehow a miracle worker, who transmits, livings, illusions and hopes from non future people to enrich and enlighten their painful lives.
But soon her biggest task will come for her. A lonely boy, wishes to make a journey for meting his father, and she will undertake her undeniable energy and spirit 's strength to feed the illusions and make those dreams come true for that love 's orphan human being.
This long Odyssey will carry us to lost horizons, to forgotten names of cities that hardly will figure in the map. A surrealistic but real world of sand, kaleidoscopic misery, severe economic restrictions, and above all moral poverty, where the time seems to have stopped for ever, because nothing happens.
After watching this movie, something inside voice must be claming that the Neo Realism Italian has reappeared. And that the only difference between the stolen bicycle and the vanished father is simply a few inches in the map of the world and sixty years of delay.
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