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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 ------ 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 P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor --------------- 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 ------------------ 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. See more ( javascript:void(0) )