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      • Opulently shot and designed, full of spectacular, tourist brochure-style imagery of Brazilian buildings and landscapes, the film teeters on the edge of novelettish melodrama throughout. Otto, though, excels as the very particular, very private and very spiky American poet.
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  2. Nov 14, 2013 · If nothing else, "Reaching for the Moon" is a feast for fans of mid-century modern design. The bold and sleekly minimalist interiors, the tailored, feminine dresses, everything down to the tea sets is carefully chosen and classically stylish – as if an entire film had been set inside a Design Within Reach store.

  3. Apr 10, 2014 · Bruno Barreto's handsomely mounted biopic tells the story of the relationship between American poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares...

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  4. Nov 8, 2013 · But “ Reaching for the Moon ,” a new drama about the tempestuous love affair between the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and the Brazilian landscape architect Carlota de Macedo Soares, has, by...

  5. Bruno Barreto's Reaching For The Moon is the beautiful result of a filmmaker inspired by the exceptional poetry of distinctly visual writer Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto, translucent and captivating).

  6. Jul 16, 2014 · Nowhere is this eternal truth better demonstrated in recent cinematic memory than in Bruno Barreto’s powerfully poetic masterpiece Reaching For the Moon, a film that showcases one such love story, that of brilliant American poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and the visionary mind behind Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo park (which contains the ...

  7. Jul 16, 2014 · Reaching For The Moon is an English-language movie directed by Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto. It is set in the 1950s, in Brazil, when Bishop left the US for what was intended to be a short ...

  8. Reaching for the Moon (Portuguese: Flores Raras, "Rare Flowers") is a 2013 Brazilian biographical drama film, written by Julie Sayres and Matthew Chapman, directed by Bruno Barreto. The film is based on the book Flores Raras e Banalíssimas (in English, Rare and Commonplace Flowers ), by Carmem L. Oliveira.