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Jos and Pilar Portuguese Jos e Pilar is a Portuguese documentary directed by Miguel Gonalves Mendes following the last years of the Nobel Prize winner Jos Saramago, chiefly through his relationship with his resolute wife, Pilar del Ro. Highly praised by the critics and the audience, the film seems to have accomplished to show the tenderness, the genuine integrity and the deeply concerned humanity behind such controversial figure and his spouse. It gathers sequences from Madrid to Helsinki to Rio de Janeiro and covers Jose and Pilars life in Lanzarote, their trips around the world presenting Joss books, signing autographs, making speeches and their most simple, transient and quotidian moments, as for during the period Jos writes his The Elephants Journey. The film was produced by Miguel Mendes JumpCut Portugal, Fernando Meirelless O2 and Pedro Almodvars El Deseo.
The film shows us their daily life in Lanzarote and their trips around the globe, and is a surprising portrayal of an author throughout the creative process of a couple decided to change the world, or at least to make it a better place. The film shows us an hidden Saramago, unravels any preconceived ideas we may have about the man and proves that genius and simplicity are indeed compatible. Jos and Pilar is a glimpse into one of the greatest creators of the Twentieth Century and shows us that, as Saramago said, everything can be told in a different way.
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