Synopsis
1964, California. A nine year old girl, Pammy, asks the question, “Mommy, did you ever go to bed with anyone besides daddy?” The child’s mother, Gloria, recently divorced and struggling with her new single status, lies “No, honey.” Gloria later wrote in her diary “What was I supposed to say? Of course, dear. Everyone does? Oh shit.”
Gloria’s discomfort with her own sexual desire, her trying to be good but wanting to be bad, became central to the 1965 films Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, also known as The Gloria Films. The films were intended for academic purposes but given a cinema and TV release, betraying the privacy of the patient Gloria.
This is a meditation on female desire in a new political context where misogyny is the winning ticket. Things could get messy. Very messy indeed.