Gloria!

Film - 2024

6,7

14.2K

Gloria! it's a movie with Galatéa Bellugi, Carlotta Gamba, Veronica Lucchesi, Maria Vittoria Dallasta, Sara Mafodda Full cast. Directed by Margherita Vicario. Original title Gloria!, runtime 100 minutes. Genres Drama, Music.

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A sound that gives rise to hope of

Diego Cineriflessi

This Gloria could only be a singer-songwriter's film! film debut of Margherita Vicario, daughter of an artist and established Italian singer-songwriter born in 1988. The new director builds Gloria! about sounds. Each gesture produces a noise which, with the right rhythm, becomes music (in some passages this technique recalls that of Lars Von Trier in Dancer in the dark) until the insertion of actual songs in a more brazen and direct way. Little by little the opera transforms from a costume film to a musical. This style gives Gloria! vitality and rhythm, characteristics that are actually often too distant from our own cinema. Vicario's direction does not fail to accompany us into the meanders of a cellar where only the music of a rediscovered piano gives hope to the orphan protagonists. Historically not flawless and a plot that is more like a fairy tale than a documentary, Gloria! a feminist revisionism that is too fashionable today pays off. It seems that after Cortellesi's There's Still Tomorrow, the key to bringing the public closer to the big screen is that of unfortunately simplistic feminism. And to say that the screenplay seems to be inspired by a rigorous novel like Stabat Mater by Tiziano Scarpa. The female ensemble cast is interesting and spares no effort and has the right faces that are credible. Courage in male roles with Paolo Rossi and Elio who draw serious characters. It competed at the last Berlin Film Festival Gloria! It's a debut that, although not convincing, especially due to the screenplay and a really fake ending, gives us hope because Vicario still seems to have a more modern and lively vision of cinema than average. We will see. Read all

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Ignazio Venzano

I really enjoyed this film for several reasons. It's true, it is (unfortunately) not a historical reality, but an invention. It's true, it's all too simple to think that some orphans "hosted" in a Catholic institute of the early 19th century, educated in music, manage to establish friendship and complicity among themselves, even with the waitress, forced to pretend to be mute to his past. Far too simple, because it is generally typical that hierarchies, disagreements, espionage and favoritism are also established in coercive institutions. And in fact there are some attempts, but in the end the sense of common destiny prevails, around the mute who turns out to be a formidable musical creative genius and together with that, among the other girls, who in fact prevails due to determination and will to rebellion. It is no coincidence that the music thus constructed by this incredible female group is incongruous compared to the music of the time. This too is a fairy tale, if you want to say that, but useful to help you understand the meaning of the story. With the idea that perhaps there is something true, even in fairy tales. The priest, excellently played by Paolo Rossi, does what he can and reveals himself, as unfortunately often seen in some Catholic institutes of the time, more of a handler than a manager. In a creative crisis, he is unable to adequately prepare the concert that will take place in his institute in front of the newly elected Pope. The students will take care of it, but how? Everything seen in the film is full of details, which are not always grasped first sight. In any case, the musical support is worth it, largely appetizing, and the photography is worth it, capable of some shots from the Venetian lagoon that are truly splendid. The director Margherita Vicario, in her first work, therefore offers us a story of female rebellion that is well constructed and well accomplished, though Read all

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It is late 18th century in Venice, and in a convent school for girls Teresa, a girl with prophetic gifts, joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of music that is pop, bright and bold, and challenge the ancient and rigid system.