CORRESPONDENCES
synopsis
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.
international title: | Correspondences |
original title: | Correspondências |
country: | Portugal |
year: | 2016 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Rita Azevedo Gomes |
film run: | 145' |
screenplay: | Rita Azevedo Gomes |
cast: | Eva Truffaut, Luís Miguel Cintra, Pierre Léon, Rita Durão, Anna Leppänen |
cinematography by: | Acácio de Almeida, Jorge Quintela |
film editing: | Rita Azevedo Gomes, Patricia Saramago |
music: | Alexander Zekke |
production: | C.R.I.M. Productions |
distributor: | Atalante |