Jose and Pilar

José and Pilar
DOCUMENTARY
Portugal 2010
Dir. Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

The screening will be followed by a screen talk with Pilar Del Rio

The result of director Miguel Gonçalves Mendes’ three-year (2006-2009) documentation of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s relationship with Pilar del Rio, the internationally acclaimed José and Pilar uncovers the couple’s moving love story, at the same time as it acutely reflects the complex character of one of the most influential novelists of the last and the present centuries. With the support of the Foundation José Saramago, Pilar Del Rio will join The Guardian’s journalist Maya Jaggi, after the film, to talk about the film and Saramago's life and work.

(In Portuguese with English subtitles)