Reaching for the Moon

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Cast & Crew

Gloria Pires
Lota de Macedo Soares

Miranda Otto
Elizabeth Bishop

Tracy Middendorf
Mary

Marcello Airoldi
Carlos Lacerda

Tânia Costa
Dindinha

Treat Williams
Robert Lowell

Lola Kirke
Margaret Bennett

Marianna Mac Niven
Malu

Marcio Ehrlich
José Eduardo Macedo Soares

Anna Bella
Kathleen

Bruno Barreto
Director

Matthew Chapman
Writer

Julie Sayres
Writer

Lucy Barreto
Producer

Paula Barreto
Producer

Rômulo Marinho Jr.
Executive Producer

Penny Wolf
Executive Producer

Marcelo Zarvos
Original Music

Mauro Pinheiro Jr.
Cinematographer

Leticia Giffoni
Film Editing

Avy Kaufman
Casting

Marcia Andrade
Casting

José Joaquim Salles
Production Design

Clara Rocha
Set Decoration

Marcelo Pies
Costume Design

Ancelmo Saffi
Makeup Artist

Lucila Robirosa
Makeup Artist

Robson Sartori
Visual Effects Supervisor

Macelo Pies
Costume Design

Alessandro Laroca
Sound Designer

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Audience Reviews for Reaching for the Moon

• May 01, 2014

  An irregular story, at times melodramatic and full of those clichés that plague most biopics (despite a nice speech scene that sounds relevant even today when it comes to dictatorships), with characters who seem like mere drafts and never become complex enough to make us care.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Nov 24, 2013

  With her suffering from severe writer's block in New York City in 1951, the poet Elizabeth Bishop(Miranda Otto) decides, as her friend Robert Lowell(Treat Williams) would put it, to take the 'geographical cure' by traveling to Rio de Janeiro to visit her friend Mary(Tracy Middendorf) from Vassar. There, she finds but is not shocked by Mary being involved in a romantic relationship with Lota(Gloria Pires), a wealthy architect, who lives in the country. Then, Elizabeth literally and figuratively bites off more than she can chew, by beginning an affair with Lota, while Lota promises Mary a puppy, no wait, to adopt a baby if she will stay. Once upon a time, the director Bruno Barreto made a wild movie called "Dona Flor and her Two Husbands" about a unique relationship. Now, he returns with "Reaching for the Moon" which is also about an intriguing relationship(the movie could just as easily be called "Dona Lota and Her Two Wives") which is grounded in reality and a true story with relationships and performances that ring true.(In fact, nobody does flustered better than Miranda Otto.) At the beginning, Elizabeth seems inexperienced but gains confidence and grows as a person throughout the film. A lot of that has to do with her creative input and success, as the movie also serves as a fine look at the creative process, both poetic and architectural, with a fine use of modernist design.
  Walter M Super Reviewer