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Love this on so many levels. First off, as I’ve been thinking of watching it on Netflix. Like that this is a woman in the prime of her life and she is pushing against those feelings of invisibility that have slowly crept up on her throughout the years. It reminds me of the short film “Flora” that I screened at the Israeli Film Festival in its intention to feature older, wiser woman at this inflection point of “not quite young but not quite ready for the retirement village” Typically women portrayed on screen are one or the other and while I’m happy to see Salma and JLo get to play romantic leads at their ripe age of 50s, they don’t look like average women in their 50s and I think this is setting up an unhealthy dynamic of society’s perceptions with age and beauty as well. That only the cream of the crop at that age get to be seen. So I feel a special kinship to JLC or Michelle Yeoh in EEAAO because there’s less of a polished shiny veneer and feels more authentic and natural.

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