Director Walter Salles has created more than a road picture; he tells a poignant story about two characters and their destinies -- destinies that remain uncertain.
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02/14/01
Central Station (1998)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:44
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Director Salles transcends road-movie clichés and crafts a film that is as moving as it is universal.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Fernanda Montenegro's affecting performance, nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, is the centerpiece in this acclaimed Brazilian film. In the bustling heart of Rio de Janeiro, a young boy witnesses... [More]
Starring: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius De Oliveira, Marília Pêra
Director: Walter Salles
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Reviews for Central Station
...a road movie of uncommon texture and grit during which the mismatched couple, each initially defensive and guarded, bond with each other.
01/23/03
Salles, who also works as a documentary filmmaker, does a superlative job of bringing the realism of the streets and the countryside to this narrative fiction.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
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.
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10/15/02
'Central do Brasil' tem a simplicidade dos grandes filmes.
05/31/02
An exceptional film.
01/01/00
It'll probably work better if you're not terribly familiar with the movies that inspired it.
01/01/00
A poignant road movie.
01/01/00
Little goes on under the surface here and in the end it seems more sentimental than insightful.
01/01/00
If you don't at least tear up in the film's final scene, you are either seriously lacking emotion, or dead.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Top CriticRoad movies are a cinematic convention, but rarely do they connect like this wonderful Brazilian film.
01/01/00
Watching this delectably humane road movie incites the same emotions as discovering the works of Truffaut
11/23/01
A richly tender and moving experience.
01/01/00
Top CriticCentral Station profoundly satisfies on many levels, but is most poignant as a tale of redemption and triumph allowed the kind of heroine who can only exist outside Hollywood.
01/01/00
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