Correspondences

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Correspondences

Release Date: August 04, 2016

Year	:	2016
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Documentary
Production Companies	:	C.R.I.M. Produções
Director	:	Rita Azevedo Gomes
Producers	:	Joana Ferreira, Susanne Malorny, Isabel Machado
Writers	:	Rita Azevedo Gomes, Jorge de Sena, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
RunTime	:	145 mins.

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.