2016 · andresen · letters · essay
Correspondences
Directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes2h 25m2016
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.
Our read: Correspondences (2016) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive andresen · letters · essay entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle andresen / letters, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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