The film starts with all the clichés attributed to so many women growing up in the 1950s and 1960s: fake orgasms, yawning sex, parasitic children, and a husband who went to his grave knowing nothing. See also 'Dubai Sports Club' receives the owner of Nantes Reinforcing the theatricality of the staging, the four acts take place within the walls of an impersonal, ugly hotel, far from any superfluous decoration that distracts from what matters here: two bodies facing the doubts of desire and the inevitable comedy of sex. A role whose risks, which are not few, are being resolved with skill and credibility despite the contrived proposal: a widow, retired Religion teacher at a high school, hires a young sex worker to do with him what she never did with her husband.

Thompson does not strip naked, but she composes in four acts a character that concentrates with humor and finesse all the fears of a woman to her own flesh and her image. And not because she goes out naked (although it’s never easy to get naked on camera, not even for a fresh young actress) but because of how she does it herself. A challenge that after seeing this film performed with the 29-year-old actor Daryl McCormack It can only be crossed out as admirable and brave. and what he considers the greatest challenge of his career: undressing at 63, overcoming his terror of the mirror. Thompson was referring to his character in Good luck, Big Leo. “It’s a fact,” she said, “everything around us just reminds us how imperfect we are.” More information

Last February, within the framework of the Berlin festival, the video went viral in which the British actress talked about how women have been educated to hate our bodies. Sometimes because of her inclination to histrionics, other times because of her perfect technique and the rest because of her way of always giving the note in defense of the most noble and foreseeable causes: the greenwashing (or eco-whitening) to sports shoes in official events.

Emma Thompson is an actress with somewhat irritating qualities.

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