movie poster for CENTRAL STATION

Flicks ID

8833

Cert

15

Running time

106 mins

Country

Format

DVD

CENTRAL STATION (1998)

WALTER SALLES

Plot

Dora is a retired schoolteacher turned conwoman, scratching a living at Rio's swarming railway station by writing never to be posted letters for illiterate passengers. When one of her customers dies, the woman's young son, Josue, is left stranded alone in the big city. Dora takes pity on the child and reluctantly joins him on a cross-country search for his father. A critically acclaimed road movie in the vein of Paris Texas.