Correspondences (2016)

Original title

Correspondências

Directed by

Rita Azevedo Gomes

Genre

documentary film

Country

Argentina, Brazil, France, Portugal

Runtime

2h 25m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary presents the letters exchanged between two Portuguese writers over two decades. One writer stayed in Portugal while the other lived in exile in Brazil and the United States. Their correspondence explores friendship, separation, and the craft of writing.

contemplativeintimateliteraryquietreflectivepersonalmeditativeelegiac

What happens

Correspondências (Portugiesisch für: Briefwechsel) ist ein literarisch-biografischer Dokumentarfilm der portugiesischen Regisseurin Rita Azevedo Gomes aus dem Jahr 2016. Es ist eine Verfilmung von Briefen der portugiesischen Schriftstellenden Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen und Jorge de Sena, die sie in den Jahren 1957 bis 1978 austauschten, als de Sena im Exil zunächst in Brasilien und dann in den USA lebte. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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