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Leaving home in three films by Walter Salles.('Foreign Land', 'Central Station', 'The Motorcycle Diaries')(Critical essay)
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January 1, 2007
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When Walter Salles began making feature films in the early 1990s, Brazilian cinema was atone of its lowest ebbs, occupying at one point less than 1% of the domestic marketplace. (1) Struggling in the 1980s, the industry was completely derailed by newly-elected President Fernando Collor de Mello's 1990 austerity program, which included a freeze on all personal savings accounts and the closure of Embrafilme, the government agency that had supported filmmaking since 1969. Any Brazilian filmmaker in this period would have needed to go outside the country for work, or at least for international financing. As a result, for his feature debut in 1991, Salles directed an ...
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