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By Urban Cinefile Critics (1,069) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 11 Jul 2014

The passionate and troubled love affair between reserved American poet Elizabeth Bishop and flamboyant Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares…

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By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 27 Jun 2014

Baretto's movie, which is sensual and emotionally intense, benefits from [its] traditional approach and I don't think audiences who love to…

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By Linda B (399) on 08 Jun 2014

Sad love story... the one that always seems to be the tough one breaks in the end…

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By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 22 Apr 2014

The film, much like our protagonist, would benefit from letting itself be a little more uninhibited…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 17 Apr 2014

All the film's dynamism lies in the script and performances: Miranda Otto's Elizabeth is a perceptive, self-absorbed boozer; Glória Pires's…

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By Sophie Monks Kaufman (221) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 16 Apr 2014

Worth watching for the passionate, compelling and destructive central love affair…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for Guardian (4,584) on 16 Apr 2014

The atrociously sentimental score is an irritant, but the performances are solid…

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By Trevor Johnston (624) for Time Out London (344) on 14 Apr 2014

The film never works out how to generate genuine dramatic fire from its material…

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By Jocey D (500) on 11 Apr 2014

3/5 --- An emotional relationship in which two people, women in this case, meet, fall in love and try to make it work beyond a third party,…

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By Susan D (125) on 02 Apr 2014

Well acted movie about two very interesting women…

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By Lee M (4,001) on 17 Mar 2014

Between a 5/10 and 6/10, despite the film's shortcomings, this story of a decade-long affair that poet Elizabeth Bishop had with Brazilian…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 13 Feb 2014

Miranda Otto, finally getting the rich lead role she has long deserved, is complex and commanding as Bishop…

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By Zoe B (61) on 13 Feb 2014

Most amazing movie i've ever seen. Absolutely beautiful…

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By Lisa K (449) on 02 Jan 2014

I recalled enjoyed this film, it was visually appealing, the characters were personable and the story was interesting although a bit melodramatic…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 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 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 Jack H (826) on 28 Nov 2013

What could have been a run of the mill lesbian love story is elevated not just by the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and the extraordinary architecture…

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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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