Country: USA
Year: 1980
Duration: 123'
A Puerto Rican family is threatened by the Mafia because of an account book. They entrust their youngest son, Nick, to their next-door neighbor, Gloria, a former showgirl and mistress of a New York gangster. After the family is wiped out by the Mafia, the crotchety woman who hates children and the small Puerto Rican boy who can’t stand women – and who has the precious book – desperately attempt to run away, amidst shoot-outs and fights. The two develop a strong bond, as though they were mother and son.
Biography
film director
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes (New York, USA, 1929 - Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1989) began as an actor before directing the 1959 movie Shadows, which was so successful that he was called to direct Too Late Blues and then A Child Is Waiting. Between 1965 and 1968, he directed Faces; in the 1970s, he directed his most important movies – Husbands (1970), Minnie and Moskowitz (1972), A Woman Under the Influence (1975) – working with actors such as Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel and his wife Gena Rowlands. In 1980, he won a Golden Lion in Venice for his film Gloria, while Love Streams received a Golden Bear in Berlin in 1984. In 2007, the Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to him.
FILMOGRAFIA
Shadows (Ombre, 1959), Too Late Blues (Blues di mezzanotte, 1961), A Child Is Waiting (Gli esclusi, 1963), Faces (Volti, 1968), Husbands (Mariti, 1970), Minnie and Moskowitz (Minnie e Moskowitz, 1972), A Woman Under the Influence (Una moglie, 1975), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (L’assassinio di un allibratore cinese, 1976-1978), Opening Night (La sera della prima, 1977), Gloria (Una notte d’estate - Gloria, 1980), Love Streams (Love Streams - Scia d’amore, 1984), Big Trouble (Il grande imbroglio, 1985).
Declaration
film director
“Gloria celebrates the coming together of a woman who neither likes nor understands children and a boy who believes he’s man enough to stand on his own. There’s a lot of pain connected with raising children in today’s world. It’s considered a big holdback for a woman. So a lot of women have developed a distrust of children. I wanted to tell women that they don’t have to like children – but there’s still something deep in them that relates to children, and this separates them from men in a good way. This inner understanding of kids is something very deep and instinctive. In a way, it’s the other side of insanity.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
John Cassavetes
fotografia/cinematography
Fred Schuler
montaggio/film editor George C. Villaseñor
scenografia/production design Rene D’Auriac
costumi/costume design Peggy Farrell, Emmanuel Ungaro
musica/music Bill Conti
suono/sound Stan Gordon
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Gena Rowlands (Gloria Swenson), John Adames (Phil Dawn), Julie Carmen (Jeri Dawn), Tony Knesich (il primo gangster/first gangster), Tom Noonan (il secondo gangster/second gangster), Gregory Cleghorne (il bambino nell’ascensore/child in the elevator), Ross Charap (Ron-Vault), Buck Henry (Jack Dawn), Lupe Garnica (Margarita Vargas), Jessica Castello (Joan Dawn), Ronald Maccone (il terzo gangster/third gangster), Gary Klar (il poliziotto irlandese/Irish policeman), William E. Rice (il giornalista televisivo/TV journalist), John Finnegan (Frank), Marilyn Putnam (la cameriera/waitress), Meta Shaw (hostess), Ferruccio Hrvathin (Aldo), Basilio Franchina (Tony Tanzini), Carl Levy (Milt Cohen), Watten Selvaggi (Pat Donovan), Vladimir Drazenovic (Tonti), Michael Proscia (zio/uncle Joe), Val Avery (Sill) produttore/producer Sam Shaw
produzione/production Columbia Pictures
distribuzione/distribution Columbia Pictures (Usa), Ceiad Columbia (Italia/Italy)
montaggio/film editor George C. Villaseñor
scenografia/production design Rene D’Auriac
costumi/costume design Peggy Farrell, Emmanuel Ungaro
musica/music Bill Conti
suono/sound Stan Gordon
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Gena Rowlands (Gloria Swenson), John Adames (Phil Dawn), Julie Carmen (Jeri Dawn), Tony Knesich (il primo gangster/first gangster), Tom Noonan (il secondo gangster/second gangster), Gregory Cleghorne (il bambino nell’ascensore/child in the elevator), Ross Charap (Ron-Vault), Buck Henry (Jack Dawn), Lupe Garnica (Margarita Vargas), Jessica Castello (Joan Dawn), Ronald Maccone (il terzo gangster/third gangster), Gary Klar (il poliziotto irlandese/Irish policeman), William E. Rice (il giornalista televisivo/TV journalist), John Finnegan (Frank), Marilyn Putnam (la cameriera/waitress), Meta Shaw (hostess), Ferruccio Hrvathin (Aldo), Basilio Franchina (Tony Tanzini), Carl Levy (Milt Cohen), Watten Selvaggi (Pat Donovan), Vladimir Drazenovic (Tonti), Michael Proscia (zio/uncle Joe), Val Avery (Sill) produttore/producer Sam Shaw
produzione/production Columbia Pictures
distribuzione/distribution Columbia Pictures (Usa), Ceiad Columbia (Italia/Italy)
