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We were watching "Reaching for the Moon" and the American poet was being feted at her first Brazilian dinner.

She--in an OCD-moment--started segmenting her food into separate piles when I yelled out!

"That farofa! And greens! And orange slices!"

Larry just shook his head, wondering why I was absurdly proud of myself for recognizing condiments.

"Reaching for the Moon" A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2217458/

 
Visually lovely; sad for the couple. The house they used as the architect's

country home was phenomenal. (It wasn't Lota's real house...they weren't able to film there...it's another architect's home...Oscar Niemeyer's, I think?).

I never realized the poet was a Pulitzer prize winner nor that cashews came from caju fruit.

The political aspects about Brazil & communism were difficult for me to follow. They may have edited out too much for it to be clear for non-informed viewers (moi).

 
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