Central Station (Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 road drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein, based on an original idea by Salles. It stars Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira.

Central Station: Directed by Walter Salles. With Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra, Vinícius de Oliveira, Soia Lira. The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, …

Dec 25, 1998 · The tone of life in Rio de Janeiro is established in an early scene in Walter Salles‘ “Central Station,” as a train pulls alongside the platform and passengers crawl through the windows to grab seats ahead of the people who enter through the doors.

Feb 9, 1998 · A sensitive art film of the old school, Walter Salles’ “Central Station” is a melancholy Brazilian road movie shot through with gently stressed cultural commentary.

Nov 18, 1998 · illiterate at the central train station and a young boy who loses his mother in a bus accident right outside the station. This rising new voice of Brazilian Cinema speaks here about the...

n Walter Salles' "Central Station," a hit at Sundance and the winner of top honors at this year's Berlin Film Festival, a cynical, joyless woman crosses paths with a...

Nov 25, 1998 · In Walter Salles’ “Central Station,” a film that is as beautiful as it is wrenching, the camera picks out a worn, unhappy-looking older woman who sets up a table and chair every day in...

Sep 2, 2020 · To an outsider’s eyes, the most appalling revelations in Walter Salles’ CENTRAL STATION are Brazil’s oceanic illiteracy in the ‘90s and an offhand execution of a petty thief in the Rio de Janeiro’s Central Station, with onlookers not batting an eyelid.

Nov 20, 1998 · In Walter Salles's ''Central Station,'' a hit at Sundance and the winner of top honors at this year's Berlin Film Festival, a cynical, joyless woman crosses paths with a lonely young boy....