The movie
The Glorias
It’s not about several competing Glorias; it’s about how all the women Gloria Steinem met or knew, and whose pain and perception she absorbed, were Glorias…
Length: 148 min
Country: Verenigde Staten
Language spoken: Engels
Language subtitles: Nederlands
Cast: Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Janelle Monáe, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Director: Julie Taymor
Release date: 19/11/2020
Description
Four different actresses, including Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander, play legendary feminist icon Gloria Steinem in Julie Taymor’s (‘Frida’, ‘Across the Universe’) daringly constructed and energetically celebratory biopic. Playing fast and entertainingly loose with chronology, Taymor juggles scenes from Steinem’s itinerant childhood—her father (Timothy Hutton) was an unsuccessful salesman who was forever uprooting the family—with moments of her experiences as a young woman, journalist, and leader of the women’s movement in Steinem’s 1970s heyday. Like Steinem herself, this is a film that never stops moving…
‘Despite the teasing title, it’s not about several competing Glorias; it’s about how all the women Gloria Steinem met or knew, and whose pain and perception she absorbed, were Glorias… The film is acted with great flair and emotional precision, and it’s been staged by Taymor with vividly detailed historical flavour… We come away moved by her journey, and with an enhanced appreciation for what she did, how she did it, and what it took…’—Owen Gleiberman, Variety
‘Despite the teasing title, it’s not about several competing Glorias; it’s about how all the women Gloria Steinem met or knew, and whose pain and perception she absorbed, were Glorias… The film is acted with great flair and emotional precision, and it’s been staged by Taymor with vividly detailed historical flavour… We come away moved by her journey, and with an enhanced appreciation for what she did, how she did it, and what it took…’—Owen Gleiberman, Variety
