Walter Salles
5 titles · transnational humanist
A retired teacher writes letters for illiterate customers at Rio's central station and mostly throws them away, until a boy whose mother has just died gives her no way to avoid him. Central Station then drives the two of them into the northeast to find his father. The journey is usually the structure: The Motorcycle Diaries follows two students down the length of South America and lets the continent do the political work. I'm Still Here stays in one Rio household after the dictatorship takes the father away.
Signature
- Road structures across Latin American distance.
- A mismatched pair whose obligation to each other builds slowly.
- Landscape carrying the political argument.
- Restrained performances, no score pushing the feeling.
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Lineage
Earlier films these works draw on, and the films they went on to shape — each link checked to name a film that actually came first.