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Central Station

1998 · 111 min

A quiet, tender road journey through dusty Brazil that slowly thaws two guarded hearts into something like family.

Tagline
Between hope and solitude, two lives cross and reinvent themselves
Overview
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • redemption
  • grief
  • found family
  • loneliness
  • parenthood
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism9
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Walter Salles
Written by
Walter Salles, João Emanuel Carneiro, Marcos Bernstein
Starring
Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Othon Bastos, Otávio Augusto, Matheus Nachtergaele, Caio Junqueira, Stela Freitas
Music
Antonio Pinto, Jaques Morelenbaum
Cinematography
Walter Carvalho
Runtime
111 min
Country
Brazil, France
Languages
Portuguese

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