Cinema has always shaped how we see women—but what happens when they age? While men grow more desirable on screen, women are pushed into silence, ridicule, or endless self-reinvention. Across genres, their desire is mocked, feared, or managed, revealing how female sexuality is not lost with time, but gradually denied space to exist. “There’s nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you’re trying to be twenty-five.”— Norma Desmond Cinema…