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Reaching for the Moon
Directed by
Bruno Barreto
2013
1h 58m
Not Rated
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A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
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Cast of Reaching for the Moon
Miranda Otto
Elizabeth Bishop
Glória Pires
Lota de Macedo Soares
Tracy Middendorf
Mary Morse
Treat Williams
Robert Lowell
Marcello Airoldi
Carlos Lacerda
Lola Kirke
Margaret
Luciana Souza
Joana
Tânia Costa
Dindinha
Marianna Mac Nieven
Malú
Reaching for the Moon Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Despite its worthy subject, this feature by veteran Brazilian director Bruno Barreto has a bluntness that's at odds with Bishop's personality and work.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
If Blue Is the Warmest Color is the gloriously messy supernova of this year's lesbian dramas, this is the J. Peterman catalog version: elegant, tasteful, and two-dimensional.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
It's hard not to admire the intentions of a movie that depicts two exceptional women living exactly the way they wanted, together, outside the expected societal norms of the time. But the tone of the film itself feels unfortunately conventional.
Way Too Indie
Bernard Boo
Disappointingly, Barreto's film is sorely lacking in artfulness, even being so corny as to utilize voiceover recitations as a device to make the tired on-screen happenings seem more meaningful than they actually are.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
Bruno Barreto's insistence that this pass for a product that Hollywood might have spawned smoothens a journey built on sharp edges.
Autostraddle
Sarah Hansen
An amazing display of how someone's support of your work can affect all aspects of what you're producing in the world.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Attention is retained by the commendably unhistrionic leads, who convincingly etch the pair's enduring devotion even when passions run dry.
Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
The life of American Poet Laureate Elizabeth Bishop furnishes surprisingly vivid emotional material in Reaching for the Moon.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Everything ultimately gives way to the stately, simplistic, inevitable pace of by-the-numbers biopics, from some woefully tinny, hit-and-run screenwriting to the usual difficulties surrounding the dramatization of an author's craft.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
In his 19th feature, Mr. Barreto assuredly embraces an approach that's counter to much received wisdom about Bishop's life and work. But his film ultimately dooms itself.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
A film which, despite its almost parodically lofty title, takes strictly the most pedestrian approach to its subject ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Laura DeMarco
[A] sumptuously filmed South American drama.
Windy City Times
Richard Knight
Baretto's movie, which is sensual and emotionally intense, benefits from [its] traditional approach and I don't think audiences who love to revel in this kind of movie will mind it, either.
Movie Metropolis
James Plath
Despite the film's shortcomings, this story of a decade-long affair that poet Elizabeth Bishop had with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares manages to hold your attention, and largely because of the characters.
About.com
Eric D. Snider
A respectable biopic that's perfectly watchable and charmingly photographed, but that could stand to loosen up a bit.
Contactmusic.com
Rich Cline
Based on a true story, this Brazilian drama has a lush authenticity as it tells a story that has strong historical relevance even as it sometimes slips into heightened melodrama.
WBAI Radio
Prairie Miller
Touches on the life of sullen and celebrated US poet Bishop, and her creative and emotional isolation in mid-20th century Brazil during the brutal military coup there. But while bypassing and isolating as well, the role of the CIA in orchestrating it.
ReviewExpress.com
Jean Lowerison
Of love and loss
Curve
Michelle Faye
A truly wonderful cinematic achievement.
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