Film
José & Pilar
Brazil · Portugal · Spain- Director
- Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
- Year
- 2010
The universe won't remember us. It won't remember Homer wrote The Odyssey.
A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.
Top cast
Directed by
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Produced by
Agustín Almodóvar, Fernando Meirelles, Bel Berlinck, Esther García