Synopsis
Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras, 2013) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, drawn from the life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Restless and short on inspiration, she leaves New York in the early 1950s for a short visit to Rio de Janeiro and ends up staying in Brazil for the better part of two decades.
Guarded and used to her own company, Bishop (Miranda Otto) is thrown by the architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Glória Pires), a forceful, magnetic woman already living with her partner Mary. What follows is a tangled triangle of desire and jealousy, and a long, difficult bond between two women who could hardly be more unalike. Brazil's slide toward the 1964 military coup plays out behind them.
Director Bruno Barreto keeps the tone quiet and grown-up, letting Bishop's verse carry the emotional weight rather than decorate it. One for viewers who like slow, true-life love stories. Stream Reaching for the Moon online on iFILM.
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