Tis the season for star-studded biopics!
The first trailer for Across the Universe filmmaker Julie Taymor’s epic Gloria Steinem biopic The Glorias has been released. The movie – which first premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival – chronicles the life of the journalist, activist, and feminist Gloria Steinem from her childhood up through present day. To do this, Taymor cast different actresses to play Steinem at different ages. The film is primarily carried by Alicia Vikander during Steinem’s formative 20s and 30s, while Julianne Moore takes over and plays Steinem from there on. Based on Steinem’s book My Life on the Road, the film …
It’s impossible to encapsulate the entirety of journalist, activist, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s life thus far in a single feature film, but director Julie Taymor tries her darndest with The Glorias. This true epic covers Steinem’s life from small child to the 2017 Women’s March, and while the film’s structure can feel unwieldy at times, Taymor taps into key insights that make this biopic worthwhile, literally allowing younger versions of Steinem to be in conversation with her older self as her evolution and education as a feminist progresses. The result is an uneven yet …
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