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Sometimes, not always, the keys to directing a play are knowing where to articulate or manipulate the viewer. Under what circumstances a line of dialogue said by an actor should have more or less effect also depends on the interpreter. Good at Good luck Big Lion director Sophie Hyde takes Katy Brand’s script and gives it Emma Thompson probably the best role of his career.
And Thompson gives us one of the best performances we’ve seen of him, Howard’s palace a what remains of the daypassing through sanity and feelings.
Of course, those weren’t comedies, and Good luck Big Lion combines genre with drama.
Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack (from the “Peaky Blinders” series) get naked, not just literally. Photo BF Paris
Because a widowed and retired woman who has never experienced orgasm is serious business.
This is how Nancy arrives at the hotel room she had booked. She is restless, nervous, until there is a knock on the door. She is the Great Lion of the title, a handsome and educated young man. A prostitute with whom, in several sessions – if Nancy will overcome her shyness and her daring – she will be able to feel pleasure.
Not only sexual inhibitions
Nancy and Leo: He hires him to get what he never had.
This is what the film is about, inhibitions, but not only sexual ones, but, above all, of Nancy’s mind, conscience. of her whole person.
The dramatic comedy lasts no more than an hour and a half and there, locked within four walls, Nancy and Leo will talk, discuss, get to know each other and discover their minds and, literally, their bodies.
Thompson, along with the “Peakey Blinders” series actor.
It is that Nancy, a former teacher, has never made love except with her late husband, and has decided, even if she mumbles that it seems absurd, to finally experiment. hear her She doesn’t have much money, but she needs to improve. She is cultured, curious, well-meaning and talkative. Very talkative.
Across the bed is Leo (Daryl McCormack, who plays Isaiah Jesus, from the series band Peaky Blinders), a sensitive man who hired online and who is tolerant, kind, easy going. We notice that, in his short escort life, he has lived through it all and if Nancy stutters, she will look at her with sympathy.
Emma already has two Oscars, one as an actress and the other as a screenwriter. Facing a new Oscar nomination?
But he knows what the purpose of the relationship is: it’s a transaction. Nancy paid for something and he will keep her smile and her manners to please her. Of course, without forcing her to do anything.
Even though Nancy has her own list of sexual priorities.
Leo is kind, understanding, and tolerant of his new client’s confessions.
Unhappiness and her delusions quickly come out of Nancy’s mouth and movements, and at times she feels like she is teaching in an elementary school class. Of course, it’s a long time, and it takes Leo many years (neither is she called Nancy, nor is he Leo) and generational differences will have to do with this too, and they will do their duty.
Or not?
Thompson and McCormack make two magnificent contributions.
Good luck Big Lion It’s an acting movie, of course. And without these two magnificent contributions from Thompson, surely the next candidate Oscar– and McCormack probably wouldn’t talk about the same wonders. The tone between comedy and drama ends up turning to the former, even if the analysis of the importance of sex and relationships is there, called without a filter, like when you make a coffee and pour boiling water.
Here nothing boils, neither metaphorically nor literally, because everything is set up at the right point so as not to burn yourself and enjoy a tasty and hot herbal tea.
“Good Luck Big Lion”
Very good
Dramatic comedy. United Kingdom, 2022. Original title: “Good luck to you, Leo Grande”. 97 ‘, SAM 16’. Of: Sophie Hyde. With: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Unicenter, Cinépolis Recoleta and Pilar, Showcase Belgrano and Norcenter.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
