Good luck Great Lionby Sophie Hyde, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, receiving critical acclaim, particularly for its lead role, Emma Thompson.

According to Variety, is “a potential candidate for Best Actress of the Oscars”. But the British sex comedy abandoned by consideration when the Academy reverted to its pre-pandemic requirements for a film it must have a theatrical release seven days before debuting on a streaming platform.

However, Variety has now confirmed that Searchlight Pictures has formally appealed the film to be “eligible” and the Academy has approved it for awards review. Additionally, the film was also licensed for award presentations by BAFTA (already awarded thanks to Lionsgate released the film in the UK).

Emma Thompson is one of the very few actresses who maintains her validity in full maturity and is called to all kinds of roles, both for gigantic Hollywood productions and in minor productions, such as Good luck Big Leo(premiered a week ago in Argentina), that takes place almost entirely in a hotel roomwith Thompson playing a retiree who pays a taxi driver to have sex.

Australian Sophie Hyde’s film is built around Thompson, who composes Nancy, a retired religion teacher, widow with a monotonous past, which included a good husband, as attentive as he is boring and conservative, the only man she has had a sexual relationship with in her entire life.

Without too many obligations, for the first time Nancy has time to reflect on her life, where sexual dissatisfaction is one of the minor problems of her frustrations. And the present she offers her the chance to hire an anonymous prostitute via the Internet, a courageous decision that Nancy makes despite her fears and insecurities about her.

In this type of film, where almost all the weight of the story rests on him or the protagonist, we usually talk “tour de force”in the sense that in addition to talent, acting requires special effort, since the story rests on the shoulders of the actor or actress.

It’s inside Good luck Big Leothe actress is none other than the British Emma Thompson, who with glorious 63 years everything is encouraged.

Everything is encouraged

She comes alive with a little story but one that keeps her on screen for almost the entire hour and a half of the story, she comes alive with a much smaller partner (Daryl McCormackfrom the series Peaky Blinders) with whom he establishes an absolutely plausible intimacy, dares to seduce – in the fiction he plays and from the screen to potential viewers – and, of course, encourages full nude.

The British actress has nothing to prove after an amazing career, defining such dissimilar characters Much ado about nothing or inside sanity and feeling, among many other newspapers.

Source Telam Agency

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