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I was surprised that I liked this movie as much as I did. As an artist and someone who has worked with machinery, I found the budding relationship between artist Kate and lighthouse engineer Bill easy-going and authentic, plus I loved the scenes of sailing, boating, and the lighthouse in fog on a rocky island. I'm glad I stumbled upon it on broadcast TV one late night. The message that we should be true to ourselves was very hopeful. No movie plot with one actress playing identical twins will ever be plausible, but it makes for good fiction and is an interesting illustration of the actors' ability to stretch into unusual roles.

I was hoping to see a movie about the poet Elizabeth Bishop: her poetry, who and what influenced her, how she influenced others, the greatness of her work and how she evolved as a poet and a person. I expected biographical details that would fill out the arc of her life. But this film is exactly what the tag line says it is, "a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop." It is literally about the houses that she lived in, and her lovers. Her homes were beautiful and her lovers interesting. I can't fault the movie for not being a rich and in-depth biographical documentary of a great poet. It did deliver what it said it would, but not what I wanted to see.