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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) is a masterclass in this. Emma Thompson, nude and vulnerable, plays a repressed widow who hires a sex worker. The film is not a comedy of embarrassment but a tender, radical exploration of female pleasure after a lifetime of performative duty. It says aloud what cinema has long whispered: older women have bodies, and those bodies have stories. Despite recent progress, research shows a persistent gap
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