Paolo Rossi, Gloria!
Gloria! is the exciting directorial debut film of the young singer-songwriter and actress Margherita Vicariopresented in the official competition at 74. Berlin International Film Festival and at the cinema from April 11th with 01 Distribution. Music, history, imagination and a cohesive and joyful femininity are the ingredients of a fascinating story.
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THE FACT
In Venice at the end of the 18th century, a group of girls from a girls’ institute dedicated to teaching music, secretly from their teacher, begin to gather around a splendid piano. Together they experiment with a new way of making music and discover its liberating power. At night they subvert the rules imposed by Ancien Régime society, first in music and then in their own lives.
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THE OPINION
Daughter of art, actress, singer-songwriter, Margherita Vicariowho grew up between cinema and music, makes her directorial debut in a delicate and at the same time daring feature film. Gloria! it is a costume film, but the essential requirement to enjoy this work, presented in competition at the end Berlin Film Festival and then to Bifest in the Baris letting yourself go to a musical anachronism that cannot fail to generate enthralling enthusiasm.
The protagonists of this story, well played by young actresses, including Veronica Lucchesiknown as the singer of the duo La Representative di Lista, Carlotta Gamba (Amusia2023, Dante2022) e Galatea Bellugi (Amanda2022), are young people with a painful past, forced to live in a female institution, who find their personal redemption by inventing a music free from the patterns imposed by the era.
At the center of their rebellion is a piano, a very innovative instrument for those years, in which the more rigid sounds of the harpsichord were better accepted, which becomes the true driving force of the story. With Gloria! Vicario, together with the precious collaboration of Anita Rivaroli to writing, realizes not only his desire to combine two of his passions, cinema and music, but also a film that frees itself from the simple female historical account and transforms itself into a fresh and pulsating story, played on the rhythm of the protagonists’ emotions returned in the form of music.
IF YOU LIKED IT GLORIA! SEE ALSO…
Among the many titles that put music at the center of the story, it can be interesting to discover Sing Street (2016), a small but delightful Irish film set in 1985, in which the passion for rock of those years becomes a real form of redemption.