Gloria Bell review: Julianne Moore’s performance justifies this remake’s existence
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. 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. Gloria Bell recalls the “women’s pictures” born in Hollywood’s Golden Age and briefly resurrected in the 1970s – films dominated by themes of liberation, sexual desire and sense of self, with female characters navigating worlds set up to work against them. Gloria Bell is somewhat exhausting – both unbearably intimate and at a constant remove – but it is endlessly pulled back into focus by Moore, who has a firm understanding of the delicate balance between contentment and yearning, joy and pain, recklessness and spontaneity.
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