Between hope and solitude, two lives cross and reinvent themselves
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20257/10
“Dora” (Fernanda Montenegro) used to be a school teacher, but now she sits at a table in the station in Rio de Janeiro and writes letters for the illiterate traveller for a few réals a time. She thinks little of a woman and her young son who stop by, except perhaps that he isn’t the most trusting of boys, but when a tragedy promptly befalls this pair she finds herself being asked to write another letter by the young “Josué” (Vinícius de Oliviera) - who’s still fairly suspicious that she never posted the last one! This one is to his dad in a remote town but what is he going to do, alone and penniless, in a city fraught with danger? Despite the fact that she is initially as keen to be shot of him as he of her, the two begin a journey that they hope will reunite him with his father, but that will certainly see these reluctant companions push each other’s buttons as their meagre funds barely stretch to the bus fares. If they ever do make it, what chance they will find and reconcile with his dad, or - for that matter - will “Josué” even recognise this man he has yet to meet? I’ve got to say, I’ve rarely seen a more engaging chemistry on screen than that on display here between these two
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Cast
- Fernanda MontenegroIsadora 'Dora' Teixeira
- Vinícius de OliveiraJosué Fontenele de Paiva
- Marília PêraIrene
- Othon BastosCésar
- Otávio AugustoPedrão
- Matheus NachtergaeleIsaías Paiva
- Caio JunqueiraMoisés Paiva
- Stela FreitasYolanda
- Maria MenezesWaitress
- Sergio KatoDora's Client
Crew
- Walter SallesDirector
- Walter SallesScreenplay
- João Emanuel CarneiroScreenplay
- Marcos BernsteinScreenplay
- Walter CarvalhoDirector of Photography
- Antonio PintoOriginal Music Composer
- Jaques MorelenbaumOriginal Music Composer
- Isabelle RatheryEditor
- Felipe LacerdaEditor
- Arthur CohnProducer
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