A free-spirited divorcee spends her nights on the dance floor,
joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. She soon
finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with
the joys of budding love and the complications of dating.
Directed by Sebastian Lelio, who won Best Foreign Language O
with his film A Fantastic Woman and also directed Rachel Weisz in
Disobedience.
Review
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With his latest film, Chilean director Sebastián Lelio has
inspired slight confusion. Gloria Bell is a beat-for-beat
reimagining of his 2013 drama Gloria, with only the faintest of
cosmetic changes beyond its shift from Spanish to English. But
there is a depressing noteworthiness to its second life American
cinema is far less likely than its foreign counterparts to
explore the stories of women in their fifties who are busy,
curious and sexual that hints at why Lelio would be interested in
relocating his premise. That and the irresistible rtunity to
grant Julianne Moore a true actor s showcase, the kind she only
gets once every few years. She is Gloria, an insurance worker
with a zest for life and new experiences, whose most blissful
moments occur in her local nightclub, where she dances like no
one s watching, and flirts and mingles wherever anyone is. Her
children are grown; she s been divorced long enough that she and
her ex-husband are on good terms, and she s never bored singing
in her car and throwing herself into extracurricular activities.
Gloria is intriguingly free of conflict, in a way we don t
typically see on film, and the mood is only darkened by the
arrival of a love interest. The recently divorced Arnold (played
with brilliant unpredictability by John Turturro) is as sweet and
exciting as he is indecipherable, morphing Gloria s life into
something far more complicated than it ought to be. - Adam White
(4 Stars)
--https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/gloria-bell-review-julianne-moore-sebastian-lelio-john-turturro-a8945766.html
Gloria Bell, the latest from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, is
a remake of his 2013 award-winning, only the action's been
transed from Santiago to Los Angeles. With the original
Gloria, still fresh in the brain, it's interesting to watch what
has been altered (or not) from the original; it's like seeing two
productions of Hedda Gabler where different actresses bring their
own spin to familiar material. Paulina García played Gloria in
the original, and her performance made a powerful impression: her
big glasses, her full laugh, the way she danced at the nightclub
expressing joy and loneliness simultaneously. In Gloria Bell, the
role is played by Julianne Moore, and it's a beautiful fit for
her. In some moments, Gloria Bell is almost an exact recreation
of the original, in construction and edit choices, even in
dialogue (the script was co-written by Alice Johnson Boher and
Lelio), but there's enough freshness in the approach that makes
Gloria a unique experience, funny and a little bit messy. The
mess feels real. - Sheila O'Malley (3 out of 4 Stars)
--https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gloria-bell-2019
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About the Actor
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Moore spent the early years of her life in over two dozen
locations around the world with her parents, during her her's
career. She finally found her place at Boston
University, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
degree in acting from the School of the Performing Arts. Prolific
in film since the early 1990s, she is particularly known for her
portrayals of emotionally troubled women in both independent and
Hollywood films, and has received many accolades, including an
Academy Award and two Golden Globes. Time magazine named Moore
one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.
About the Director
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Born in 1974, Sebastián Lelio is one of the leading figures
(along with Pablo Larraín, Andrés Wood and a few others) of the
post-dictatorship Chilean cinema. After graduating from the
"Escuela de Cine de Chile" in Santiago, Lelio started by making
shorts (he made five from 1995 to 2003, as well as a
documentary). From 2005 on, he directed four remarkable feature
films, the first three very dark, the fourth one somewhat
lighter, which all garnered awards in the festival circuit. The
Sacred Family (2005) is kind of Chilean version of Pier Paolo
Pasolini's Teorema (1968). It was followed by Christmas(2009), a
drama of uncommon intensity focusing on three teenagers alienated
from their families and The Year of the Tiger (2011), recounting
the escape of an inmate during Chile's 2010 earthquake. Coming
after this taught triptych, Gloria (2013) surprises by its
peaceful tone. The amorous adventures of Gloria, a sixty-year-old
office worker in Santiago, although not without tensions and
bitterness, are less upsetting than what Lelio had filmed before.
But whether dark or rosy, Lelio's cinema explores the Chilean
society of today with the same acuteness.
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