---
title: 'José and Pilar (2010)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Miguel Gonçalves Mendes'
released: '2010-09-25'
runtime_minutes: 125
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
countries:
  - 'Brazil'
  - 'Portugal'
  - 'Spain'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/jose-and-pilar-2010'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1789810/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# José and Pilar (2010)

2010 · 125 min · Documentary · Brazil, Portugal, Spain

Original title: José e Pilar

## Synopsis

José and Pilar is a Portuguese documentary directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes following the last years of the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, chiefly through his relationship with his devoted wife, Pilar del Río. Highly praised by the critics and the audience, the film succeeds in portraying the tenderness, the genuine integrity and the deep humanity between the controversial writer and his wife. It gathers sequences from Madrid to Helsinki to Rio de Janeiro. It includes sequences life in Lanzarote, and during trips around the world as well as their simple, transient and quotidian moments during the period José writes his "The Elephant's Journey". The film was produced by Miguel Mendes' JumpCut (Portugal), Fernando Meirelles's O2 and Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Esther García](https://cinepixo.com/people/esther-garcia), [Fernando Meirelles](https://cinepixo.com/people/fernando-meirelles), [Miguel Gonçalves Mendes](https://cinepixo.com/people/miguel-goncalves-mendes), [Agustín Almodóvar](https://cinepixo.com/people/agustin-almodovar)
- **Director:** [Miguel Gonçalves Mendes](https://cinepixo.com/people/miguel-goncalves-mendes)
- **Screenplay:** [Miguel Gonçalves Mendes](https://cinepixo.com/people/miguel-goncalves-mendes)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Adriana Calcanhotto](https://cinepixo.com/people/adriana-calcanhotto)

## Cast

- [José Saramago](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-saramago)
- [Gael García Bernal](https://cinepixo.com/people/gael-garcia-bernal)
- [Fernando Meirelles](https://cinepixo.com/people/fernando-meirelles)
- [Tomás Eloy Martínez](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomas-eloy-martinez)

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