Manchester
Central Station (15)
A retired school teacher and young boy become unlikely travelling companions when the boy is suddenly orphaned and must find his estranged father. ?
Embittered and living alone, Dora, who transcribes letters for illiterate people and pockets the money without sending the notes, meets nine-year-old Josu? just before his mother is killed in an accident. ?
After much deliberation, Dora reluctantly embarks on a journey through northern Brazil with Josu? in search of his family.
Eschewing sentimentality to become a moving study of unlikely connection, this is the film that thrust Walter Salles onto the international stage.
