"Actor: Fernanda Montenegro"

• Central Station 4K UHD+Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/11/2025) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From acclaimed director Walter Salles (I'm Still Here, The Motorcycle Diaries) comes a profoundly moving tale of resilience and redemption, now restored in 4K.Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1998 and featuring a landmark performance from Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station follows a former school teacher who writes letters for illiterate people at a Rio de Janeiro terminus, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they travel across Brazil searching for the father he never knew.One 4K UHD disc (Region Free) with the 4K restoration of the film, plus commentaryOne Blu-ray disc (Region B) which includes the 4K restoration, presented in HD, and special featuresCommentary with Walter Salles, Arthur Cohn, and Fernanda MontenegroSocorro Nobre (Life Somewhere Else, 1995) - documentary by Walter SallesMaking-of featuretteTheatrical re-release trailerEnglish SDH subtitlesPLUS a new essay by Tiago de Luca and a double-sided poster, both included in a replica envelope

• Central Station | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £7.17   |  Saving you £7.82 (109.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the opening scenes of Central Station, colourful crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion, setting the tone for a picturesque road movie that charts Brazil's renaissance in a little boy's search for his father and an old woman's emotional reawakening. When we first meet Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), this frozen-hearted, sour-faced woman is the epitome of immobility: day after day, she sits in the train station selling her letter-writing skills to all comers, but often doesn't bother to mail these precious messages. When a woman who's paid Dora to write a pleading note to her son's long-missing dad gets run over by a bus, the child, Josue (Vinicius de Oliveira), is up for grabs. (The summary execution of a thieving street kid--seen in longshot--underscores the seriousness of this waif's plight.) After an abortive attempt to sell Josue for a new TV, the aspiring couch potato finds herself reluctantly propelled into an occasionally Fellini-esque odyssey through the hinterlands of Brazil's sertäo, where Dora and her sidekick find unexpected faith and family. Former documentary filmmaker Walter Salles (Foreign Land) mixes magic with realism in his appreciation of striking faces and places, but Central Station is primarily fuelled by the tough/tender performances of Montenegro, Brazil's Judi Dench, and de Oliveira, an airport shoeshine boy Salles cast over 1,500 other hopefuls. (Montenegro was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and Central Station was in the running for Best Foreign Language Film.) No cloyingly cute child-star, de Oliveira plays Josue as a bracingly idiosyncratic brat. And watching Dora's face and soul slowly, unwillingly unclench as she gets back in motion--and emotion--is potent pleasure, even if Salles' trip does dead-end in soap opera as his Brazilian pilgrim's progress winds down. --Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com

• I'm Still Here | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BRAZIL, 1971. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Winner of 'Best International Film' at the 2025 Academy Awards.