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When women write and direct, they write for older women. Greta Gerwig gave Laurie Metcalf a career-defining monologue in Lady Bird . Emerald Fennell gave Carey Mulligan a ferocious, chaotic revenge in Promising Young Woman . Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall gave Sandra Hüller (46) an Oscar-winning vehicle that was purely intellectual and emotional. More importantly, directors like Jane Campion ( The Power of the Dog ) framed mature actresses (Benedict Cumberbatch is 45, but his mother in the film is played by a formidable 68-year-old) with reverence.

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But the trajectory is undeniable. Mature women in cinema have moved from the margins to the main stage. They are no longer the quirky aunt or the source of wisdom who dies in act two. They are the protagonist, the villain, the lover, the fighter, and the auteur. They have taken the final line of Sunset Boulevard —"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"—and transformed it from a lament into a declaration of war. And they are winning.