Reaching for the moon (DVD). LC Barreto and Filmes Do Equador in association with Globo Filmes, Globosat, Imagem, Telecine, Teleimage present ; produced by Paula & Lucy Barreto ; screenplay by Matthew Chapman and Julie Sayres ; directed by Bruno Barreto.
Title from web page, container, and disc menu. Miranda Otto, Glória Pires, Tracy Middendorf, Marcello Ariroldi, Lola Kirke, Treat Williams. Based on the true love story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the book Rare and commonplace flowers / by Carmen L. Oliveira. Based on the screenplay by Carolina Kotscho. DVD release of the 2013 motion picture. Bonus features: Featurette ; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
Based on the true love story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares.This sumptuous English-language '50s period piece recounts the years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero, where she would fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
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