The film’s various Glorias appear in conversation with each other, both literal and figurative, as they travel through “The Glorias” in a large Greyhound bus - again, both literally and figuratively. Steinem, fortunately, has many of them to offer.īased on Steinem’s bestselling 2015 book “My Life on the Road,” and adapted by Taymor and first-time scribe Sarah Ruhl, the film imagines four different Glorias (played mostly by Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander), following Steinem through some of her most important travels (mostly on the road, all of them through her extraordinary life). But the road to becoming “Gloria Steinem” was winding, and the best parts of the wonderfully inventive “ The Glorias” are when Taymor takes her various eponymous Glorias on some artful detours. Taymor, who has only dipped into biopics once before, with the similarly creative “Frida,” knows that life doesn’t move in a straight line, which could have scared her off from adapting Steinem’s road-trip autobiography. Amazon Prime Video will start streaming the film on Wednesday, September 30.įilmmaker Julie Taymor has never operated within conventional parameters, but then again, neither has her latest cinematic subject, feminist icon and political firebrand Gloria Steinem. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
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