Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love (2025)

In the 1950s, poet Elizabeth Bishop moved to Brazil almost by chance, where she would live for nearly fifteen years. This experience marked a major turning point in both her personal life and her creative work. Through her relationship with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares, her correspondence, notebooks, poems, and her own recorded voice, the documentary traces the birth of an intimate bond with a country that would become one of her greatest sources of inspiration. Rejecting the linearity of a traditional biographical narrative, the film adopts a free and contemplative form that mirrors the sensibility of its subject. Letters, drafts, watercolors, photographs, archival footage, and Brazilian landscapes intertwine to compose a true sensory experience, where memories emerge in fragments, much like a poem.

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