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Julianne Moore has a 'disco ball inside her heart' in Sebastián Lelio's 'Gloria Bell'

NEW YORK - She's divorced, in her 50s, works a nondescript office job and likes belting out power ballads while stuck in L.A. traffic. She could be your mom, your sister or the lady behind you at the grocery store.

Except she's not, because she's played by Julianne Moore.

In "Gloria Bell," the Oscar-winning actress and writer-director Sebastian Lelio elevate the story of an ordinary woman dealing with the challenges of middle age through the power of close observation. Not only is Moore in every scene but she is also in every frame of the film, which follows Gloria, a single but largely content mother of two grown children whose buttoned-up exterior - she wears oversize librarian

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