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French cinema, with its emphasis on the "femme d'un certain âge," has produced icons like Isabelle Huppert (70) and Juliette Binoche (59). Huppert's performance in Elle (2016) as a middle-aged video game CEO who hunts her rapist is a masterclass in power and ambiguity. She was utterly unapologetic, cold, and magnificent.
In Asia, the shift is slower but notable. Korean cinema gave us Youn Yuh-jung (74), who won an Oscar for Minari (2020), playing a foul-mouthed, loving, deeply human grandmother. Japanese director Naomi Kawase (54) makes poetic films centered on older women's connection to nature and memory. The global market is realizing that the story of a 60-year-old woman carries the same dramatic weight—often more—than the story of a 25-year-old superhero.