I have watched it maybe three or four times over the years. I love the scenery, which is their homeplace, but mostly the way the camera captures it. Love Pilar's beauty and energetic mind. Love how Saramago is a sort of philosopher without being it, specially when he says he is tired of the efford of "looking smart/pretending to be intelligent". I love how they love each other so much, and how they devoted themselves to each other and to the happy marriage and union of Portugal with Spain throughout literature. I keep watching it and learning more from both. How authentic he was, can you blame him for being a comunist and an atheist? That's just who he was. Well wrapped in his beliefs. Love them, love the work the director made with such precious material.
Review of José and Pilar
