Mamacruz (2023)

Director: Patricia Ortega
Stars: Kiti Mánver, Mari Paz Sayago, Silvia Acosta

Cruz is a grandma who's spent years, decades actually, without having an orgasm. Religiously devout, it wasn't something that she considered particularly important, or that she'd even given much thought to… until, one day, while surfing the internet, she again starts to feel those desires and sensations she had believed were long gone. Now she is faced with a dilemma: how can she balance her religious beliefs with this new sexual and sensual awakening that has suddenly come back into her life?

Mamacruz took another look at the recently often used theme of how we look at sex life and sex drive in elderly age (e.g. Good Luck to you Leo Grande). Personally I appreciated how this film approached the topic of sexual awakening very gently, slowly and almost bashfully, but at the same time in detail an in depth. The story of how we might not feel as beautiful as we get older and maybe even our partners don't want us physically as they used to is a very relatable realistic theme, that can concern anyone in today's society. I must highlight the performnace of the protagonist, who created her character with elegance and truth, captured the riff between her new found self and her old conservative christian self and managed to play out the scenes concernig sex without vulgarity. All in all this is actually a kind of a feel good film with deep message behind it.

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