Gloria

One of the highlights of this year’s festival circuit is this wonderful film which encapsulates the challenges of a single older woman trying to find her place in a society which is dominated by couples and families.

An excellent Chilean film about a woman (called Gloria) who is trying to learn to live with being divorced, living on her own, and not the centre of her grown up children’s lives. Paulina Garcia – who is on screen throughout – is outstanding as a fiftysomething woman looking for meaning and purpose by going to clubs and smiling at older divorced men. She finds one who seems devoted to her, but he comes with more baggage than he can handle. It’s a quiet touching film which – very unusually – gives an older woman the leading role, and shows life from her perspective. Recommended.

7/10

Phil Raby

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