Central Station
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Short description
Central Station follows Dora, a retired schoolteacher in Rio de Janeiro who earns money by writing letters for illiterate people at the city's main railway station. One of her clients, Ana, dictates a letter to the father of her nine-year-old son, Josué, a man the boy has never met. After Ana is killed in an accident outside the station, Josué is left alone, and Dora takes him in. The two travel into the interior of Brazil to look for his father, and despite their differences in age and outlook, they gradually grow closer.
The film is directed by Walter Salles, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marcos Bernstein and João Emanuel Carneiro. It comes early in Salles's filmography, preceding Behind the Sun, The Motorcycle Diaries and later works including I'm Still Here. Fernanda Montenegro plays Dora, with Vinícius de Oliveira as Josué, alongside Marília Pêra, Othon Bastos, Otávio Augusto and Matheus Nachtergaele in supporting roles.
The film has been widely seen and well received on IMDb and TMDB, both rating it around 8 out of 10, while its film critics' rating is somewhat higher at 8.4 out of 10 from 50 reviews. Produced on a budget of roughly 3 million dollars, it returned about 6 million dollars worldwide.
What's left behind the scenes
- By ‘Central Station’ in Brazil, people usually mean the main railway station in Rio de Janeiro, which connects this metropolis with other major cities in the country. Its full name is Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil.
- All scenes of the film were shot in chronological order.
- Vinicius de Oliveira received a role for which 1500 young actors auditioned.
- When actress Fernanda Montenegro set up her table at the station, strangers began approaching her with requests to write letters for them, just as it happens in the film itself. Some of the footage shot during these moments was included in the film.
- When Dora comes home and watches television, bought with the money from the sale of Jozue, a popular Brazilian television program called "Willing to Do Anything for Money" is on.
- Walter Salles, upon arriving at the airport, saw a boy who wanted to shine his shoes, but he refused, as he was wearing sneakers. Then the boy asked for money, but Salles refused again. Salles offered the boy an audition. He initially refused, saying he was very poor, had never acted, and hadn't even seen a movie, but Salles persuaded him. The boy’s name was Vinicius de Oliveira.
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