GLORIA
(directed by Sebastián Lelio, 2013)
***+ (out of 5)
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> What’s not to love about Gloria?
. Girls just want to have fun, and Gloria is no exception. Divorced with grown children, our Chilean heroine has a lot of life left in her, and she struggles to forge a new, post mother-and-wife identity. We go along for the ride as she hits the bars and chats up men for company. As played by disarmingly vulnerable actress Paulina Garcia, Gloria is a charming woman, fun-loving, happy-go-lucky and willing to take risks to find the human connection and intimacy she searches for. She meets a charming, soulful divorcee (Sergio Hernández), and we begin to root for them as they get more involved. Things look promising, but the suitor with the tender eyes is a damaged man. Can he get over the pains and hurts that hold him back, or is this beautiful romance a doomed venture?
. This sweet human dramady works. You care about Gloria and hope she can rise above her self-destructive impulses. You want this to be the romance that works for her.
– And it’s very, very nice to see genuinely erotic love scenes between 50somethings. If you extrapolated human sexuality from the movies you’d think only young people have sex or that there was nothing erotic about it when they did.
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