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A lonely novelist arrives in Morocco, a prestigious writers’ residence, hoping to overcome a lack of inspiration. It is there that she meets a young man who accompanies her writer lover. Although he allows himself to be charmed by this drunken environment of worldly intellectuals – completely new to him, the boy finds refuge in the friendship of a lonely writer. A relationship that gives way to a devastating love story that turns both their lives upside down…

Lonely Planet, written and directed by Susanna Grant, with Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth, Diana Silvers…

A new phenomenon in Hollywood

Is Hollywood and Western societies in general changing? Will the so-called “mature” woman have the right to exist? Better yet, be wanted and desired? This seems to be the case if we are to believe the slight trend that has emerged in recent months.

A wave of films aimed at the general public featuring women over 45 experiencing beautiful and great love stories with men much younger than them. This is a phenomenon called May-December – an Anglo-Saxon expression that refers to a relationship between two people with a large age gap.

We had the idea of ​​being with you with Anne Hathaway, who is infatuated with a boy band singer. Nicole Kidman who falls in love with Zac Efron in The Bottom of the Family. Unforgettable movie May December Todd Haynes with Julianne Moore.

Tempting with opposite patterns

Now it’s Laura Dern who turns herself into Liam Hemsworth in Suzanne Grant’s Lonely Planet. Erin Brockovich’s screenwriter—and recent hit Netflix series Unbelievable—continues this movement with what Vulture’s Rachel Handler calls humorless.A new movie year for MILFs(We’ll leave it up to readers who don’t know this acronym to do their own research).

Thus, Catherine Lowe, played by Laura Dern, is a successful novelist, but her personal life is in decline. She is a woman of a certain age, beyond what society generally considers sexually viable or even just worthwhile. And he has a crisis of fifty years – separation, rejection, creative stagnation, what’s next? – By holding a gathering of writers in Morocco. And she discovers her attraction to a man at least 20 years her junior.

Catherine, despite not showing anything, is haunted by Owen (Liam Hemsworth), another author’s handsome, charming and quietly frustrated companion in this asylum. So Owen is impressed by Catherine’s apparent lack of interest in him. She spends most of their early relationship ignoring him in favor of writing his novel.

Undeniable charm

The alchemy between these two is undeniable and the magic of the place with its breathtaking Moroccan scenery helps ignite the spark. And oddly enough, Owen is attracted to Catherine by what annoys him about his girlfriend.

Her name is Lily (Diana Silvers), and her character is designed to be the envy of the audience: model-sized, very beautiful, an overnight literary success with her first novel despite having never published anything before. And even if Catherine, a lonely novelist, and Owen, a former high school officer turned New York financier who doesn’t read books, have nothing in common, everything attracts them.

Aside from a few non-scaffolding shenanigans, Lonely Planet reveals itself to have more substance than the film cares to assume. The characters are far from free of flaws and can be unsympathetic, but the way they treat this couple is quite fair and touching. It’s Susanna Grant’s saving grace in this type of story, and especially the only sex scene, regardless of the female gaze.

If the ending is a little too abrupt and conventional, Lonely Planet pays tribute to these women over 50 who want and want to be seen as desirable. Hallelujah!