Flores Raras (2013)

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70	The Hollywood Reporter Deborah Young It would be hard to find two more contrasting actresses than Otto and Pires, but Barreto plays off their differences in culture and personality.
60	Variety Guy Lodge Attention is retained by the commendably unhistrionic leads, who convincingly etch the pair's enduring devotion even when passions run dry.
40	The New York Times Nicolas Rapold Ms. Otto conveys a double-edged intelligence as the film's pinched notion of “Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil,” while Ms. Pires strides about, every snap judgment and grand gesture a measure of her appeal. Both are hemmed in by direction and a screenplay that are relentlessly on point (as well as an off-the-shelf score).
40	Los Angeles Times Robert Abele Everything ultimately gives way to the stately, simplistic, inevitable pace of by-the-numbers biopics, from some woefully tinny, hit-and-run screenwriting to the usual difficulties surrounding the dramatization of an author's craft.
38	Slant Magazine Diego Costa Bruno Barreto's insistence that this pass for a product that Hollywood might have spawned smoothens a journey built on sharp edges.
30	Village Voice Calum Marsh Poetry refracts life; this film can only reflect it, and tritely at that.

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