Angel Films præsenterer GLORIA BELL Premiere: 11. april Længde: 102 minutter Censur: tba Instruktør: Sebastien Lelio Premierebiografer: Grand Teatret, Dagmar Teatret, Valby Kino, Lyngby, Øst for Paradis, Trøjborg, Biffen Aalborg, Café Biografen Odense, BC Odense. BC Aalborg, Bio Nicolaj Kolding, Esbjerg, Sønderborg, Gilleleje m.fl. Synopsis Gloria Bell følger den midaldrende Gloria (Julianne Moore). Gloria er i 50’erne, nyligt fraskilt og med to voksne børn. Efter sin skilsmisse er der vendt op og ned på hendes liv, og Gloria er havnet pladask i en midtlivskrise. Hendes børn har travlt med deres eget liv, og hun er i tvivl om, hvorvidt hun har spildt sit liv på sit tidligere ægteskab. Er der oplevelser og øjeblikke hun ikke har udlevet, og er det nu er for sent at ændre på sit liv og livsførelse? Det sætter hun sig lettere desperat for at udfordre. Hun bruger dagtimerne på sit 8-16 job, men dispenserer for dette, når hun i de blå timer slår sig løs i nattelivet i L.A. En aften opstår der en uventet romance mellem Gloria og den tidligere soldat Arnold (John Turturro), og det bliver starten på en affære, der giver håb om at ægte kærlighed stadig er opnåeligt, også selvom man er midt i livet. Gloria Bell er skrevet og instrueret af den chilenske instruktør Sebastián Lelio (En fantastisk kvinde), og er en genindspilning af hans eget prisvindende drama ‘Gloria’ fra 2013. Trailer og pressemateriale Kan hentes på: https://www.angelfilms.dK/gloria-bell Kontakt: Peter Sølvsten Thomsen, [email protected] Julianne Moore in GLORIA BELL. What attracted you to this role? I saw the original movie and I was so compelled by Sebastián's vision and his humanity, and the way that this very regular woman was at the center of this narrative. I thinK I was so drawn to Gloria because there is something so uniquely alive about her. She is someone who is very, very engaged in her life, who loves her friends and family. She is interested in going out to dance because she loves dancing. She is incredibly vibrant, and she’s also very much liKe all of us. I thinK there is something to identify with in her for everybody. What’s wonderful is that you very rarely get to see a movie so intimately focused on a single woman’s life, an ordinary woman, a regular life, and in that, you get to see all the inherent drama. And all the drama that we all have in our lives. It sort of maKes you looK at your own life in a different way and thinK, “Wow, I guess that is compelling.” There was a lot in her that I identified with, and that I was very moved by, and I think other people will be too. And I thinK one of the things that's so exciting about this for me is that the only people who see Gloria in her entirety are Gloria herself and the audience. So, nobody else in the film sees her that way. Her mother doesn't see her in her entirety, her Kids, her boyfriend, her girlfriends... they all see these little pieces of her, but Gloria and the audience share that experience, which is really unusual. What was it about Sebastián's 2013 Gloria that made you want to work with him? It was the intimacy with which he filmed his character. He was so, so careful. There would be times where there was just a shot of Paulina Garcia... there's one where she's scrubbing clothes and she is singing, and I remember thinKing, I don't thinK I've ever seen that before. It was so lifeliKe, and so vibrant, and so exciting to me, that I wanted to meet the person who made this movie, who chose that shot. It really, really touched me and I feel so fortunate that not only did we meet, we actually managed to get this off the ground, which is sometimes an impossible thing too. Can you talk a little bit about your co-stars? Sebastián would call me and tell me who was playing each part and I was blown away. Michael Cera, who is fantastic, plays my son. Caren Pistorius plays my daughter and they're both really, really amazing actors. John Turturro… Brad Garrett plays my ex-husband… Jeanne Tripplehorn plays his wife. It was so amazing to come to worK every day and have these people to play opposite. Really extraordinary actors who would just come in sometimes for a day or two to play these parts. But I thinK they were also compelled by the story and Sebastián's worK and we all had an amazing time. Holland Taylor plays my mom. She is the most wonderful actress and the most extraordinary person and we had so much fun together. She really made me laugh so hard and we only had a couple of scenes to really establish the relationship. She managed to Kind of give you an entire history in a scene. What I loved is, Gloria doesn’t always have the easiest time with her mother, but then when she is in trouble, that’s who she called. I found that so, so moving, really, really touching. How do you encapsulate a relationship that lasts a lifetime? Holland was able to do that and Sebastián too in the way he depicted it. And I thinK Sebastián’s world view is very essential to humanity. I thinK it is something that you see in all of his films. The time and the patience that he takes with his characters and of course particularly with his female characters, is absolutely gorgeous. It is so, so moving to see him examine these female lives thoroughly and intimately. I loved his directions and how precise he was all the time. His directions were so minute and things that he celebrated. For example, there’s a moment when John Turturro’s character needed to pause in order for a camera move to happen. John came up with this wonderful thing Sebastián loved where he reaches into his pocKet to put on his ChapsticK and it was so wonderful because it’s incredibly vulnerable and it’s human. It’s something that his character doesn’t believe is being observed by others as he is doing it. That’s what Sebastián would encourage us to do. Those Kinds of moments that would ordinarily be unseen I thinK in life and on film. That’s what Sebastián captures. That’s very, very unusual. How did you create Gloria’s look? One of the things that interests me as an actor is that there are always things about the way people dress or do their hair or maKeup that are signifiers. Sometimes these things tell you where someone is from and, because we decided to transpose this story to Los Angeles, I said to Sebastián that, because this is where she lived and where she grew up, this character would be a blonde. I wanted her to have this very particular California blonde look, which is why we did it. When moving the story to the United States, what made you decide on Los Angeles? It was my first instinct. I live in New YorK City, so I like to shoot everything there (laughs). So, I couldn't believe it when [Sebastián] asKed me and the first words out of my mouth were LA. And I thought, oh, now I've committed myself to doing a movie in LA! (laughs) But that was the only place I could see us transposing that story. I could see her being in her car, with that sense of isolation and yet everything very close to you. All those elements seemed to exist there, and it fit perfectly, it was crazy. Can you tell me about Gloria's relationship to the music in the film? I love that the songs in the film are specific in the sense that everyone Knows them and would have heard them on the radio. We chose certain Kinds of love songs that would have an emotional component that Gloria would relate to and they had to be... songs we could afford (laughs). That was the other thing too, so we were restricted in terms of what we [could have]. Which are your favorite songs from the soundtrack, if you had to choose a few? I like the Olivia Newton-John song… A Little More Love. I mean, Total Eclipse of the Heart is pretty great. I have to say, that might be my favorite. I don't actually sing that in the movie, we just listen to it (laughs). What were some of your favorite scenes to shoot? I don't think there was a day that I didn't enjoy, except for maybe some of our nights in Vegas, which were challenging, just because it was all night long. I really loved it. The dancing scenes were really fun to do with John, I really enjoyed being with him and worKing with him. I loved all the big family scenes. I thinK there's some stuff that's so funny and there were times when we couldn't looK at each other, just because behaviors were so funny. Paintball was great, flying in that trapeze was great… I just loved doing the job. Can you talk more about the dancing scenes in the film? I understand that John Turturro is Quite the dancer. John Turturro is a real dancer. John Turturro dances and he taKes salsa lessons and I am not a dancer and I am not someone who had ever salsa'd in their life.