Central Station

Central Station

  • Director: Walter Salles
  • Writer: Marcos Bernstein,João Emanuel Carneiro,Walter Sall
  • Countries of origin: Brazil, France
  • Language: Portuguese, German
  • Release date: November 20, 1998
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Бразилія. Центральний вокзал
  • "Central Station" is a Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles, starring Joe Emmanuel Caneiro, Walter Salles and others.
    The film tells the story of the realistic Dora, driven by motherhood, helping Joshua to go to the northeast to find his father.
    The film was released in Brazil on April 3, 1998. 

    Details

    • Release date November 20, 1998
    • Filming locations Central do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Production companies Audiovisual Development Bureau, Ministerio da Cultura, BEI Comunicações, Bahiatursa

    Box office

    Budget

    $2,900,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $5,969,553

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $35,708

    Gross worldwide

    $5,971,073

    Movie reviews

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    • By Yvonne 2022-04-23 07:03:30

      Love brings a heart back

      On a Brazilian highway, an old woman and a boy set off on a hot trip. Before that, the old woman Dora was selfish and indifferent, with many letters in her drawer that she sent for help but would never be sent by her. She even sold the boy for a big color TV. Later, a friend's reminder made her conscience find out. She took the risk to get the child back, and thus embarked on an unknown and long journey.
         The trivial time and the long journey brought their hostile hearts closer, until...

    • By Estefania 2022-04-23 07:03:30

      Take me home

      This is a movie that ranks No. 1 in the history of world cinema. It is also a classic among road movies. The

      story takes place in Rio's central station. The heroine, Dora, is a writer who sets up a stall at the station. The faces of the common people who have lost any pink color are either sad or happy, hopeful and hopeless, begging Dora to help them write letters to their families. A Brazilian version of "Across the River During Qingming Festival"

      is rarely seen in this...

    • By Dagmar 2022-04-23 07:03:30

      "Central Station" --- Begin with a touch

      It is a kind of luck to call up an unfamiliar disk from a dozen or so disks, and it is also a matter of luck to pick a disk from a pile of disks that I have never seen before. After reading it, I still want to write. , still need luck.
          The film begins with a picture of warmth and lack of color saturation. Faced with the confessions of the letter writers, it quickly enters the situation. Joshua's mother is in a car accident, and the first emotional climax of the film arrives. A touch of...

    • By Hester 2022-04-23 07:03:30

      From Central Station

      I thought I could read it twice, but I found that there is a third part.
      The film seems to be based on the love between people, and at the time of writing this article I don't know what the final outcome will be. But I guess JOSHUA should be back to Rio de Janeiro with DORA.
      The things I see in the movie feel very warm, but I always feel that some things still can't jump out of a balance between people.
      If DORA hadn't done such a sorry thing to that little Zhengtai at the...

    • By Leone 2022-04-23 07:03:30

      meet briefly

      This is a very slow-paced movie that takes an afternoon slowly. By writing letters, she has seen the various states of the world, honed in the vicissitudes of the years, and has seen through and clearly the darkness of human nature. Being a good person is not so important to her anymore. Knowing that meeting the little boy who lost his mother and wanted to find his father, that old and cold heart gradually warmed up. It's as if a frozen star on the edge of the universe and a hot meteorite...

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    • By Margot 2023-09-09 16:34:28

      Kikujiro's summer is the Japanese version of the central station. It's a classic. In the end, when Dora read the letter, I was...

    • By Carter 2023-08-01 04:17:33

      The flawed conscience of the cunning people at the bottom and the plot from indifference to approaching each other are far more moving than the Madonna theme. It is also a road family search film. Compared with "Kiujiro", this film has a strong Catholic St. Francis color. It can be seen from the names of the three brothers, Joshua, Isaiah, and Moses. The father who is permanently missing is more straightforward. name...

    • By Tabitha 2023-07-17 08:48:52

      The touching story is well written and performed, and the contradictions and transformations of Dora's character are particularly...

    • By Makayla 2023-06-23 20:56:02

      Accidentally found this good movie in Ruyun's bad movie, I feel my soul has been...

    • By Jessie 2023-06-14 00:58:59

      The yellow sand permeated by the film is panic-stricken, how desolate. She writes letters for the illiterate at Grand Central Station, secretly disdaining or even destroying their true feelings or falsehoods. The journey has affected her subtly, and when she re-writes the letter, her disdainful attitude has changed. The director took great pains to express this slow change. //In that era when only wild geese could communicate, it was such a precious ability to be able to express thoughts or...

    Movie plot

    Dora (Ferlanda Montenegro) writes letters to the illiterate at Central Station, the main railway station in Rio de Janeiro. You will receive one yuan for writing a letter, and another one yuan if you need to send it on your behalf. On this day, Anna (Soia Lira) brought her nine-year-old son Joshua (also translated as Joshua, Vines de Oli), because Joshua has always wanted to see him before they met Father. Dora and neighbor Irene take...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    1. The film "Central Station" is adapted from the novel "Broken April" by Albanian writer Ismail Kadell.
    2. When Cyrus and his collaborators were adapting the novel, they found that the primitive and bloody battles in ancient Greece were quite similar to the situation in some remote areas of Brazil at the beginning of the century, so they adapted them in the form of ancient Greek tragedies. Transplant the background of the novel to...
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    Evaluation action

    The Brazilian movie "Central Station" is hailed as one of the "world's best movies" by film critics all over the world. People's comment on this film is: "Central Station" is extraordinary in that it is a film: when it touches your heart, it is talking to your brain. Because most of the film's story scenes appear on the road, it is called a "road film". Just like the name of the movie-"Central Station", it's just a place where the hero...
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    Movie quotes

    • Dora's Client: [dictating a letter] I want to send a letter to a guy who cheated me. Mr Ze Amaro, Thank you for what you did to me. I trusted you and you cheated me. You even took the keys to my apartment.

    • Dora's Client: [dictating a letter with her son] Dear Jesus, You're the worst thing to happen to me. I'm writing because your son Josue asked me to. I told him you're worthless, and yet, he still wants to meet you.

    • Isadora: If you ever miss me, take a look at our little portrait. I say this because I fear that you'll forget me as well. I miss my father. I miss everything. Dora.