Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil, France
Why tonight?
- In Portuguese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- rio de janeiro
- letter
- wilderness
- teacher
- orphan
- railroad
- alcoholic
- missing parent
- long lost relative
- realism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Fernanda Montenegro
Isadora 'Dora' Teixeira
Vinícius de Oliveira
Josué Fontenele de Paiva
Marília Pêra
Irene
Othon Bastos
César
- Otávio Augusto — Pedrão
- Matheus Nachtergaele — Isaías Paiva
- Caio Junqueira — Moisés Paiva
- Stela Freitas — Yolanda
- Maria Menezes — Waitress
- Sergio Kato — Dora's Client
- Soia Lira — Ana Fontenele
- Rita Assemany — Jessé's Wife
- Harildo Déda — Bené
- Gildásio Leite — Man on the bus
- Nanego Lira — Nordeste preacher
- Directed
- Walter Salles
Production
- Studio
- MACT Productions, VideoFilmes, RioFilme
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
