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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 Dec 2013

Despite its worthy subject, this feature by veteran Brazilian director Bruno Barreto has a bluntness that's at odds with Bishop's personality…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Glenn Dunks (46) on 26 Dec 2013

I found the story of these two lovers to be not especially involving and hardly fresh or new…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for WBAI Radio (118) on 21 Dec 2013

Touches on the life of sullen and celebrated US poet Bishop, and her creative and emotional isolation in mid-20th century Brazil during the…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 27 Nov 2013

Everything ultimately gives way to the stately, simplistic, inevitable pace of by-the-numbers biopics, from some woefully tinny, hit-and-run…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Nov 2013

Attention is retained by the commendably unhistrionic leads, who convincingly etch the pair’s enduring devotion even when passions run dry…

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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Nov 2013

It would be hard to find two more contrasting actresses than Otto and Pires, but Barreto plays off their differences in culture and personality…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for The New York Times (9,847) on 08 Nov 2013

Ms. Otto conveys a double-edged intelligence as the film’s pinched notion of “Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil,” while Ms…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Nov 2013

Bruno Barreto's insistence that this pass for a product that Hollywood might have spawned smoothens a journey built on sharp edges…

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By Calum Marsh (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 Nov 2013

Poetry refracts life; this film can only reflect it, and tritely at that…

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