Gloria Bell: Didn’t Ring My Chimes!

I think Julianne Moore is a fantastic actress, so I was eager to see "Gloria Bell," a film which has gotten very good reviews.  It is a re-boot of Chilean Director/Co-Writer Sebastian Lelio's 2013 award-winning film "Gloria," only, instead of taking place in Santiago, Chile, it is set in Los Angeles.  I never saw the original, but I have no plans to do so now! Gloria (Julianne) has been divorced for about 12 years.  She has a boring job at an insurance agency, and, although she isn't well-off, she is able to make ends meet.  She seems like a well-adjusted, warm, vivacious, very pretty, and for-the-most-part-happy woman.   She would like to have a romantic relationship, but seems comfortable being alone.  She has a grown-up son and daughter that she doesn't see much, but she has loving relationships with them, without any apparent conflict.  She enjoys singing along to her car radio and loves to dance. At a nightclub Gloria visits regularly that caters to the 50's-and-over crowd, she meets recently-divorced Arnold (John Tuturro), and they start seeing each other.  Arnold has obvious baggage, so the first problem is why would such a terrific woman remain single for 12 years and take Arnold seriously?  He seems like a nice enough guy, but is still pathologically over-involved with his two adult daughters.  Most of the film is about their relationship, which I won't say more about.  Potentially interesting situations occur between them, but the film amazingly enough just skips over them.  We never learn what is really going on with Gloria, although Moore does a wonderful job conveying her joy, sadness, anxiety, and anger, sometimes simultaneously. I found the movie boring most of the time, but, to be fair, there were a few interesting scenes.  My favorite scene was a birthday dinner for her son, Peter (Michael Cera), which was attended by her daughter, Anne (Karen Pistorius), Gloria's ex-husband, and his second wife.  This was the only scene that I thought had any depth. Bottom line, I think the film is just an OTBR, which I recommend only for Julianne Moore fans.