Reaching For The Moon (English) / Flores Raras (Portugese) (2013)

This 2013 dramatic romance chronicles Elizabeth Bishop’s years with her lover and friend Lota de Macedo Soares. It stars Miranda Otto as Elizabeth Bishop and Gloria Pires as Lota Soares.

Prizes and Awards:

Winner of the Audience Award, Outfest 2013

Winner of the Audience Award, Frameline 2013

Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival

Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival

IMDb Rotten Tomatoes: 65%

Ruhl, Sara. Dear Elizabeth. 2012. Yale Repertory Theater.

A stage adaptation of letters written between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, broken into two acts:

Act 1

Part One: Water

Part Two: Come To Yaddo

Part Three: Brazil

Act 2

Part One: Skunk

Part Two: Art just isn’t worth that much

The play was bound and printed in 2014 as Dear Elizabeth: A Play In Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again and distributed by Faber and Faber, Inc.

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Reaching for the Moon