So much attention has been paid to “Pina,” Wim Wenders’s 3D homage to the choreographer Pina Bausch, that it’s easy to overlook another documentary that is also competing for the Academy Award for foreign-language film. “José and Pilar,” directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, is Portugal’s submission, and it too comes with an impressive pedigree. Co-produced by the directors Pedro Almodóvar and Fernando Meirelles (“City of God”), it examines the relationship of love and support that sustains José Saramago, the Portuguese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, and his wife, Pilar del Rio, as Saramago battled to write one last novel before his death in 2010 at the age of 87. Mr. Gonçalves Mendes, 33, is in the United States this month for festival showings of the film and spoke by telephone from Palm Springs.
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