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Miguel Gonçalves Mendes is a Actor, Director and Producer Portugais born on 2 september 1978 at Covilhã (Portugal)
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes (born September 2, 1978) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He has directed four feature films and eight short films since 2002, a filmography that took him to renowned film festivals around the globe. In 2010 he directed the 117-minute documentary José and Pilar, a walk through the last years of life of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, José Saramago and his wife Pilar del Rio, a moving love story of humanistic reaching. The film, co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo and Fernando Meirelles' O2, gathered very positive reviews and prompted a unique popular movement in Portugal. Recently Miguel announced he will be adapting José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ with an international screenwriter and a foreign cast and crew.
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360 (2012)
, 1h50Directed by Fernando Meirelles
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Ben Foster, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jamel Debbouze
Rating60%
360 centers on the stories of a group of people from different social backgrounds through their intertwining relationships.
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José & Pilar (2010)
, 1h57Directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Origin Portugal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Gael García Bernal, Fernando Meirelles
Rating81%
"The Elephant's Journey", in which Saramago narrates the adventures and antics of an elephant transported from the court of King John III of Portugal to that of the Austrian Archduke Maximillian, is the starting point of José and Pilar.
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José & Pilar (2010)
, 1h57Directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Origin Portugal
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Gael García Bernal, Fernando Meirelles
Roles Producer
Rating81%
"The Elephant's Journey", in which Saramago narrates the adventures and antics of an elephant transported from the court of King John III of Portugal to that of the Austrian Archduke Maximillian, is the starting point of José and Pilar.