Walter Salles; Fiction; Documentary; Reality effect.
This research tries to identify the characteristics of Walter Salles Junior's fictional cinema. So, we selected four feature films directed by him that are aesthetically similar and there are culturally close characters (Latin
Americans): Foreign Land (1995), Central Station (1998), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Linha de passe (2008). Based on the film analysis, this dissertation appears to investigate whether there is any authorship and how the director deals with alterity. Our premise is that Salles rises to a realistic cinema to involve the spectator with the narrative as if he were in real life. This involves aspects such as verisimilitude and the reality effect, a device identified by Roland Barthes in the arts. We also consider the beginning of Walter Salles as a documentarian and how this starting point influenced his fictional productions.