The Last Poem

The Last Poem

Original title: O Último Poema
Production: Besouro Filmes
Country: Brazil
Director: Mirela Kruel
Script: Mirela Kruel
Cast: Ana Júlia Chiodi Alberti; Rodrigo Fiatt,
Year: 2016
Duration: 70
Genre: Arts documentary
Color: Color
Original language: Portuguese
Languages available: Portuguese
Subtitles: Spanish; English

Synopsis:

Helena Maria Balbinot, a countryside teacher from the south of Brazil, exchanged letters during 24 years with Brazilian modernist poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. The movie reveals part of these letters. Through scenes of poetry and extreme beauty, this friendship is reinvented in the audience eyes. A meeting between the poems of Drummond and the particular universe of Helena Maria.