Directed by John Cassavetes
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Una notte d'estate - Gloria, 글로리아, 铁血狼子, Glória, Gloria, die Gangsterbraut, Una notte d'estate (Gloria), 女煞葛洛莉, Глория, Γκλόρια, グロリア, Gloria - gangsteriheila
Italy Venice International Film Festival 
Greece Thessaloniki International Film Festival 
USAPG 
Netherlands12 
FranceU 
UK15 
Japan 
Brazil 
Czechia18+ France France Brazil16 Netherlands12 France Brazil Czechia France Greece Italy Japan Netherlands UK USA 
Sometimes all you need is Gena Rowland outrunning the mob in high heels and designer outfits for two hours to make the world seem a little less awful.
cassavetes clearly made this film just to show off how much of a badass gena rowlands is
so strange when cassavetes does studio films! the conventional pressures of capitalism clashes with his raw emotional style, creating this dislocated reality that whips from cliched dialogue to a patented genius gena rowlands monologue and back again.
together, the ultimate film power couple unpacks the false myth that being a woman makes one inherently maternal — even when gloria is taking care of the boy she’s smoking cigarettes and gangsters in front of him or calling him stupid, lol. though film noirs of the 40s and the new hollywood movement of the 70s meant that antiheroes were bountiful, antiheroines were much rarer. it’s easy to see why this timeless story’s sly influence has resulted in countless remakes, all of which fail to replicate the intimate alchemy of the original. there’s truly nothing like a cassavetes/rowlands collab!
all because gloria ran out of coffee!
john cassavetes was always concerned with the realm of adults- his movies are about navigating complex emotions and relationships in the midst of booze and cigarettes and run-down buildings. his art ran on the emotional rather than the plot or the cause and the effect. gloria, a studio financed project, mashes together cassavetes signature style with the more traditional adherences we can expect of main-stream cinema.
it doesn't always... work. the film meanders just as much as it hits. one minute, it's a catalogue of new york city, the next minute it's awkward bonding time. the film struggles to build momentum as gena and her charge run from one location to the next. infused with a wiry sort of nervous…
what if john cassavetes was an evil little boy
I'm just upset she left the cat behind!!!
My boyfriend complained throughout the entire movie that the jerk kid made Gloria lose her cat, intermittently wondering aloud if the cat would make a miraculous reappearance.
Cassavetes made ‘Gloria’ as a favor of sorts to Gena Rowlands; she had a yen to play a titanic character portrayed as an independent, gritty, sexy stalwart. When it came time to film, however, she had trepidations about her ability to authentically represent the population of willfully-childless women. She wanted believability above all else, and despite the suspension of reality present in the narrative, Rowlands gives a fully-realized, complex, convincing performance.
As one of the women Rowlands symbolizes through the titular character, I felt a kinship with Gloria and the awkwardness with her…
Gena Rowlands kills so many fucking people in this.
”he don’t know the score. he see’s a dame like you and a guy like me... he don’t know!”
perfect for mother’s day
THE KID IS JOHN CASSAVETES!
THE KID IS JOHN CASSAVETES!!!
THE KID IS JOHN CASSAVETES!!!!!!
(& this movie is about rowlands & cassavetes’s marriage! if that wasn’t clear!)
