Does the film have at least one female character who is 50+?
The ingenue had her century. This is the era of the Oracle. She has stories to tell, wages to demand, and she isn't leaving the stage until the credits roll—and she’s writing the credits herself.
Modern cinema is gradually untangling itself from the taboo of older female sexuality. Films like Good Luck to You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thompson, or The Matrix Resurrections featuring Carrie-Anne Moss, present mature women as desiring and desirable individuals, challenging the puritanical notion that romantic or sexual agency expires with youth.
True equity will be achieved when the presence of mature women in leading roles is no longer treated as a remarkable anomaly or a trend to be analyzed, but rather as an ordinary, permanent fixture of standard storytelling.