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Al inicio de su sexta década de vida, Emma Thompson sigue siendo una actriz prolífica, cuyos trabajos cinematográficos más recientes presentan la edad como un aspecto destacado. Mientras que en la película Late Night (2019) recrea la crisis de una presentadora famosa de programas de noche, cuya carrera parece acabarse cuando cumple sesenta años, en Buena suerte, Leo Grande, presenta la cruzada personal de una mujer que ha enviudado recientemente y que quiere sentir placer sexual por primera vez en su vida. En este artículo, ofrecemos el análisis textual de los contra-relatos del envejecimiento femenino que se desarrollan a través de dos de las interpretaciones más recientes de Emma Thompson en papeles protagonistas. A través del género de la comedia dramática, estos relatos cinematográficos de la vejez femenina tratan y a la vez subvierten temas que todavía se consideran tabú desde puntos de vista edadistas o sexistas, o ambos, y que están estrechamente relacionados con la sexualidad (femenina), la creatividad y la imagen corporal en la madurez.
At the onset of her sixtieth decade, Emma Thompson remains an active and prolific actress, whilst 'age' has become a more salient trait in her cinematic roles. In the recent Berlinale presentation of her latest film, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022), Thompson’s declarations on her character (a recently widowed woman called Nancy Stokes) received considerable media attention. Referring to her character’s story, Thompson declared that not only is women’s pleasure silenced and made invisible still in the twenty-first century, but the female ageing body is also hidden and considered a hateful view to look at. Thompson’s previous film in a leading role, Late Night (2019), depicts a similarly critical moment in the life of a successful late-night talk show host called Katherine Newbury, whose career seems to reach a dead end when she turns sixty and the channel she works for decides that her show is not profitable anymore. While Nancy Stokes starts a quest to have an orgasm past her sixtieth birthday, Katherine Newbury’s quest focuses on proving that a woman’s creativity and popularity do not have to diminish with age. In this article, we present a textual analysis of the counter-narratives of female aging developed through two of Emma Thompson’s latest lead roles. Within the genre of dramatic comedy, these cinematic narratives of female old age address and subvert topics that are still considered taboo from either ageist or sexist perspectives, or both, and which are closely related to (female) sexuality, creativity and body image in later life.
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