Review: Reaching for the Moon (dir. Bruno Barreto; Brazil)

Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this audience award winning drama recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (played by Miranda Otto, Lord of the Rings) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (the beautifully handsome Gloria Pires). 

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DVD Release Date:  12 May 2014
Country of Origin: Brazil
Director: Bruno Barreto
Cast: Gloria Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf

Available on DVD from Amazon, (RRP £15.99)

REACHING FOR THE MOON is released by Peccadillo Pictures. It can be ordered on DVD from Amazon and Play.

 

In search of inspiration, Bishop leaves America having accepted the invitation of an old college friend to stay with her on her sprawling country estate in Brazil. But she never counted on meeting the love of her life - her friend's partner.

At first, the fiery personalities of the two women collide and lead to passion-fuelled debates, but animosity quickly turns to attraction, then desire. 

This biopic explores the complicated and poetical life of poet Bishop, who wrote successfully (she's a Pulitzer Prize Winner) and defied gender oppression by ignoring the glass ceiling of feminist/lesbian literary writing. She did not allow these factors to infiltrate her poetry. 

Against a back drop of rural Brazil, and three strong female lead characters, who are shaping a three-sided female only family for themselves - possibly one of the first of its kind, and despite all the fame and fortune these professionally successful women have brought themselves, it doesn't make life any less complicated.

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