Emma Thompson, at 62, starred in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande , a tender, explicit film about a widow hiring a sex worker to experience pleasure for the first time. It was a masterclass in destigmatizing older female desire.
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: A gamine figure requiring male rescue, an image that favored extreme youth. Emma Thompson, at 62, starred in Good Luck
To understand the problem, look to the Atlantic. French cinema routinely grants women the same messy, erotic middle age as men. (59) and Isabelle Adjani (68) still play lovers, schemers, and madwomen. In The Truth (2019), Catherine Deneuve plays an aging actress who is vain, selfish, and glorious—a role Hollywood would have rewritten as "wise mother who apologizes." starred in Good Luck to You