Correspondences

(2016)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2016

Runtime: 145 мин

Country: Portugal

Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast: Eva Truffaut, Pierre Léon, Rita Durão, Anna Leppänen, Luís Miguel Cintra, Tânia Dinis, Mário Barroso, Hugo Tourita, Boris Nelepo, Francisco Nascimento

Plot

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.