{"id":609,"date":"2014-09-10T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:50:11","slug":"gloria-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Gloria-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gloria-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Sebastian Lelio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Paulina Garcia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #167<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed September 10, 2014<\/p>\n

Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

The subject matter of the film Gloria (2012) is so unusual in this day and age of the clich\u00e9d, youth-obsessed world of Hollywood that it is incredibly refreshing and pleasing to view.<\/p>\n

Gloria tells the story of the title character, a middle-aged (50’s) divorced woman, living in Chile, who simply lives life to the fullest.<\/p>\n

She loves and embraces new experiences. She tries smoking pot, sings along to disco songs, and dances the nights away.<\/p>\n

Gloria is looking for love, but she is not a depressed or dowdy woman. She is stable, attractive, intelligent, and funny.<\/p>\n

She lives!!<\/p>\n

Gloria meets and begins a relationship with Rodolfo, a similar-aged divorced man with a family filled with baggage whom she meets in a nightclub. His ex-wife and two daughters reside with and are dependent on, him.<\/p>\n

The film wisely does not feature Rodolfo\u2019s family at all until the very end which adds to the mystique of the character. Gloria and Rodolfo begin a series of trials and tribulations involving both of their families.<\/p>\n

Gloria introduces Rodolfo to her family at a birthday party in which her ex-husband and his current wife are in attendance.<\/p>\n

Her family is very close including her relationship with her ex-husband and his new wife. They take a wine-induced trip down memory lane. This is too much for Rodolfo and he bails. He is constantly barraged with phone calls from his family during alone time with Gloria.<\/p>\n

They continue to have ups and downs.<\/p>\n

The audience wonders, will they find their way to a happily ever after? Is Rodolfo really a cad? Does Gloria want to settle down? A moment of bliss at an expensive hotel is ruined by an event and the audience\u2019s heart breaks for Gloria.<\/p>\n

How wonderful that this film dares to feature more than one explicit nude scene between these two middle-aged people in a classy, tender style. This is not common in American films so happily, foreign-language films are not as rigid or prudish in their sexuality.<\/p>\n

Why Paulina Garcia received little recognition for this role is unfortunate to me. She deserved an Oscar nomination as she relays an enormous level of complex emotions- she feels the loss, she is betrayed, she is giddy, she is silly, and the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

Gloria, at times, is admittedly slow-paced, but what a breath of fresh air the film and the story is.<\/p>\n

The film is a character-driven, tender tale centering on mature, intelligent people.<\/p>\n

Independent Spirit Award Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best International Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gloria-2012 Director Sebastian Lelio Starring Paulina Garcia Scott’s Review #167 Reviewed September 10, 2014 Grade: B+ The subject matter of the film Gloria (2012) is so unusual in this day and age of the clich\u00e9d, youth-obsessed world of Hollywood that it is incredibly refreshing and pleasing to view. Gloria tells the story of the title … Continue reading Gloria-2012<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3620,192,35,213,3680,3622,3621,3623],"tags":[75,3624,193,67,214,3681,3626,3625,3627],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-chilean","category-dramas","category-foreignfilms","category-foreign-dramas","category-pablo-larrain","category-paulina-garcia","category-sebastian-lelio","category-sergio-hernandez","tag-2012-movie-reviews","tag-chilean","tag-dramas-2","tag-foreign-language-films","tag-foreign-dramas","tag-pablo-larrain","tag-paulina-garcia","tag-sebastian-lelio","tag-sergio-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19969,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/19969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}