Reaching for the Moon

2013 [PORTUGUESE]

Biography / Drama / History / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 67% · 39 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 3705 3.7K

biography mourning loving dramatic melodramatic

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Plot summary

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

Director

Bruno Barreto Photo
Bruno Barreto

Top cast

Treat Williams Photo
Treat Williams as Robert Lowell
Tracy Middendorf Photo
Tracy Middendorf as Mary
Miranda Otto Photo
Miranda Otto as Elizabeth Bishop
Lola Kirke Photo
Lola Kirke as Margaret Bennett
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1.03 GB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
de  
24 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 25
2.12 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
de  
24 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 32

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Jose Guilherme 8 / 10

Interesting characters and some very good acting...

Overall had a very good impression of the movie. I think it balanced well certain aspects... especially in the portrayal of their romance. They avoided being overly prudish and that made the romance seem more real. Without getting too kinky and losing focus. The contrast between the two characters is really interesting.The actress Gloria Pires who portrays Lota de Macedo Soares has worked in dozens of soap operas and that sometimes comes through in her films, but not this time thankfully. She so embodies the force of nature that was Lota and this comes through the screen very well. I felt like I was seeing a member of my old Rio family... so her amazing portrayal was certainly the highlight of the film for me.PS: Being a Macedo Soares myself (but too young to have known Lota)... there might be a bit of bias in my review.
Reviewed by eebyo 8 / 10

Involving, watchable, grown-up - sound like your kind of movie?

I enjoyed this story of a lengthy midlife love affair, "based on" (that is, "not cemented to the known facts of") real women of some mid-century renown. One, American poet Elizabeth Bishop, is quiet, slow to warm to strangers or share working drafts of her poems. See if Miranda Otto doesn't remind you of Deborah Kerr in her memorable 1940s and '50s roles (and clothes). In Brazil to visit an old college friend, Elizabeth meets Lota de Macedo Soares, a charismatic commander of attention and glamorously trousered architect. They become lovers and make their life in Brazil. All the characters, including a close male friend of Lota's and one of Elizabeth's, are revelations in the best sense: mature but unfinished adults, they meet their circumstances over nearly 20 years in ways not even they might be able to predict. Mark Twain said that fiction is obliged to meet our expectations but the truth isn't. Central Casting can provide "types," but history offers people like nobody else, which is why you'll find discussions here and elsewhere complaining that these lesbians were not put through their proper lesbian plot paces! The drunks were sometimes sober! People got depressed without enough foreshadowing! Ignore all that. This is a good quiet story, mostly but not all sad, about people learning themselves as they go, living genuinely if not always bravely. And anyone who's ever dreamed of having a writer's sanctuary will fall rapturously in love with the al fresco study Lota builds for Elizabeth. Must be seen to be appreciated!
Reviewed by maurice_yacowar 8 / 10

Philosophic analysis of poet Elizabeth Bishop's tragic love affair

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