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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
CENTRAL STATION (R) A richly tender and moving experience. As Dora, a prickly, taunting wretch, the Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, at 67, unfurls a face that's like a wadded-up lifetime of crushed dreams. Dora meets Josue (Vinicius de Oliveira), a 9-year-old boy whose mother has died, and, for reasons that have mostly to do with her own fear and survival, she tries to return him to his long-lost father. Gradually, that face relaxes and uncurls; it begins to respond, once again, to the world around it. Director Walter Salles displays a pure and unpatronizing feel for the poetry of broken lives. A-
Posted Dec 04, 1998
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