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.
Direction
Azevedo Gomes turns letters into living cinema.
Writing
Sophia and Jorge's words need no embellishment.
Director
Rita Azevedo Gomes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eva Truffaut's participation connects this to her grandfather François's own epistolary cinema traditions.
The film was shot during Portugal's 2016 centennial of Modernism, reframing these private letters as national heritage.
PT
