Gloria
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle drama / chilean, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.
Our read · Gloria (2013) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · chilean entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Gloria
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