Gloria (Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes)
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Gloria, the next-door neighbor of the murdered parents, finds herself, in spite of herself, responsible for the care and protection of a Puerto Rican kid, to whom his father, before dying, entrusted a notebook full of compromising information that the Mafia is looking for… “With his usual nervousness, Cassavetes films threatening streets and disturbing interiors, but he mainly films Gena Rowlands, unrealistic and magnificent, threatening killers, gun in hand, in the middle of New York.” (Télérama) “The beauty and emotion that emerge from the film come from these suspended moments in which the actress's performance, as in the theater, exceeds and supplants the narrative stakes.” (critikat.com) “Rowlands is a grandiose film noir heroine. The staging is nervous, with a fabulous gunfight in the middle of New York, but it is the characters that take precedence, as always with the filmmaker. » (Zurban) “Half art movie, half chase thriller, with a breathless, commanding performance from Gena Rowlands as the ex-chorus girl of the title.” (Time Out Film Guide)
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17 Place du Théâtre
2613 Luxembourg
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