‘Central do Brasil’ turns 25 and Fernanda Montenegro recalls: ‘Did it make the film go around the world’

Central do Brasil (1998) celebrates its 25th anniversary this Monday, the 3rd. The feature film was nominated for Fernanda Montenegro to the oscar in Best actress and established itself as a classic of Brazilian cinema.

In an interview with Simone Zucolottofor the Brazil Channel (via The globe), the actress recalled the film, described as a “small, modest production, nothing trying to be huge. But chance always has the last word, that’s a basic phrase of Simone de Beauvoir, and chance made this film go around the world. And wherever he went, he was well received.”

Montenegro also spoke about the importance of doraprotagonist of Central do Brasil: “Our cinema, more contemporary, is very much about the man, about the attitude of the man, the leader, the boss, what he wins or what he loses… but by a strange coincidence, I made this film where the woman has a A very present and consequential position in the development of the script and the humanist and social quality of being a woman. This is a beautiful character, because I am from the time when being a normalist, for a woman, was an act of great social affirmation, of the feminine. It is. a very rich character.”

The full interview, which also features Vinicius de Oliveira (interpreter of Josue) airs at 5:30 pm. At 6 pm, the channel will show the film.