{"id":324025,"date":"2021-08-13T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T22:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-mostly-tepid-horny-ghost-story\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T22:23:40","slug":"a-mostly-tepid-horny-ghost-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-mostly-tepid-horny-ghost-story\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Mostly Tepid Horny Ghost Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2c0b0507fdf\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2c0b0507fdf\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-mostly-tepid-horny-ghost-story\/#Recommended_Reading\" >Recommended Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#A Mostly Tepid Horny Ghost Story<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media \"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ghosting-gloria-1.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ghosting Gloria\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ghosting-gloria-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ghosting-gloria-1-768x353.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- START BYLINE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n            By\u00a0Brianna Zigler\u00a0\u00b7 Published on August 12th, 2021\n            <\/div>\n<p>        <!-- END BYLINE --><\/p>\n<p>        <em>This review of\u00a0Ghosting Gloria\u00a0is part of our coverage of the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Gloria has a problem. Not only is she woefully single, but she can\u2019t remember the last time she had an orgasm. And if you think that\u2019s bad, even worse is that she may never have even had a single orgasm before in her <em>life<\/em>. The premise of <strong>Marcela Matta<\/strong> and <strong>Mauro Sarser<\/strong>\u2018s sophomore feature, the Spanish-language <em><strong>Ghosting Gloria<\/strong>,<\/em> is certainly a welcome one \u2013 a woman seeking a more fruitful sex life finds unexpected pleasure in the phantasmagoric. It\u2019s a unique concept that also puts the female orgasm (something all too often stigmatized in film and, well, everywhere) front and center. At a time when mainstream cinema feels bereft of palpable sexuality, one must naturally look to the outer reaches of smaller films for better depictions of lust on screen. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fantasiafestival.com\/en\/film\/ghosting-gloria\">Billed<\/a> as a \u201cwhimsical, somewhat unconventional and subversive, romance,\u201d with \u201cmoments of mindblowing\u2026erotic comedy,\u201d <em>Ghosting Gloria<\/em> is, in actuality, a tepid, rather than titillating exploration of sex, love, and self-discovery, as ultimately restrained in its depictions of sensuality as it is in its attempts at humor.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria (<strong>Stefania Tortorella<\/strong>) is a reserved and well-read bookstore employee \u2013 a humdrum job she is nevertheless quite passionate about, working alongside her far more sexually liberated friend Sandra (<strong>Nenan Pelenur<\/strong>), where the pair regularly bemoan their \u201cdickhead,\u201d \u201cassface\u201d store manager. Stuck in the doldrums of an unfulfilling dating life as she yearns for romantic affections, Gloria becomes fed up with the relentless, nightly sex sounds from her noisy and horny upstairs neighbors. So, she decides to rent out her apartment and live elsewhere until she can find a new place. After relaying this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> to Sandra, Gloria is hooked up with the dead friend of a friend\u2019s apartment, a man who recently and suddenly passed away from a freak brain aneurysm. Though armed with reservations towards moving into a new place where someone may have just died, Gloria takes Sandra up on the offer. And sure enough, shortly after Gloria moves in, she discovers that this dead former tenant, Dante (<strong>Federico Guerra<\/strong>), never really left \u2013 that his spirit still lingers within the walls of his former residence, his soul not quite yet finished with its business on earth. And, also, it <em>desperately<\/em> wants to fuck.<\/p>\n<p>After mistaking her preliminary otherworldly encounter for psychological issues, Gloria discovers that Dante\u2019s ghost pleasures her with such riveting sexpertise that she is able to climax not just once, but over and over and over. Thus, Gloria starts up a sexual and romantic relationship with the undead, something that proves to be just as satisfying \u2013 if not more so \u2013 than dating a man with a corporeal form. However, once Dante\u2019s lifeforce unexpectedly vacates the apartment, Gloria reluctantly returns to a life among the living, forced to confront her idealistic expectations towards men and relationships. But it\u2019s here where the narrative of <em>Ghosting Gloria<\/em> begins to taper off, the sluggish screenplay credited to co-director Sarser. Any excitement begat from the film\u2019s initially riotous portrayals of unearthly cunnilingus are henceforth forgone, as Gloria embarks on a mostly unengaging journey of self-discovery, padded extensively with deflating conversations crawling towards a conclusion that doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019ll ever come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>The most important male characters are kept largely out of shot until around the film\u2019s second act, director of photography <strong>Germ\u00e1n Luongo<\/strong> using clever camera framing in order to keep their faces obscured from both the audience\u2019s and Gloria\u2019s, point of view. It\u2019s all meant to be symbolic of the way Gloria perceives men, fully expounded upon once Dante has left from her life for good but referenced in an earlier scene in the film. In it, Gloria had unenthusiastically attempted to court a man at a party at Sandra\u2019s urging, but found it difficult when he proved to not be mentally stimulating enough for her.<\/p>\n<p>This paves the way for the reveal that Gloria has been yearning to date a man whose personality resembles her favorite authors. She wants a Hemingway or Mailer to sweep her off her feet with a bout of thought-provoking discussion until she comes to the dismaying comprehension that all of these men who she romantically idealizes were plagued with their own ugly failings like any other human being. Ultimately, the man Gloria wants does not exist, which makes all the more sense why she would prioritize a bond with a lover who isn\u2019t real, either.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a particularly shallow metaphor for a film that had the potential in its premise to make up for its superficial examination of intimacy \u2013 and also mortality \u2013 by being surreal or at least visually interesting, but is neither. Even the music cues are reminiscent of royalty-free stock music that might be dropped into any number of straight-to-DVD comedies. The most fantastical aspects of the film are still presented in a straightforward way, and <em>Ghosting Gloria<\/em>, though certainly sex-positive, ends up nonetheless dishearteningly unwilling to fully reckon with human sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Topics: Fantasia Film Festival<br \/>\n        <!-- AUTHOR BOX --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/brianna.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Brianna Zigler is an entertainment writer with bylines at Polygon, Little White Lies, Thrillist, The Film Stage, Bright Wall\/Dark Room, and more. She runs a bi-monthly newsletter called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/briannazigler.substack.com\/\">That&#8217;s Weird<\/a>. 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