Bruno Barreto, Reaching For the Moon

Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto’s Reaching For the Moon chronicles an unexpected 15-year affair between the Pulitzer Prize winning poet and National Book Award honoree, Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto), and wealthy Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloria Pires). This story of passion and loss takes place just outside of Rio De Janeiro in the '50s when Bossa Nova was just emerging. Who knew that Bishop was the model for Candice Bergman's character Lakey in Sidney Lumet's 1966 film The Group? Or that she was an alcoholic? Barreto captures Bishop's inner life, as well as her tragic romance in this picturesque, erotically charged account.

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