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Older women and younger men in the movies.
The movies’ male/female age divide is nothing new — from Marlon Brando buttering up a less-than-half-his-age Maria Schneider in “Last Tango in Paris” to Catherine Zeta-Jones pursuing a grandfatherly Sean Connery in “Entrapment,” on-screen relationships between older men and younger women rarely even merit a comment.
This week on the IFC News podcast, we thought we’d look at the flip side of the phenomenon and examine how films treat pairings of older women with younger men, picking out some of the recurring themes, and wondering why the deflowering of a teenage boy by an older female is allowed to be played off as funny, when the reverse is, well, Roman Polanski.
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Tags: Alfie, An Education, Anne Bancroft, Bull Durham, Dustin Hoffman, Entrapment, Harold and Maude, Heading South, James Spader, Jude Law, Prime, Roman Polanski, Sunset Blvd., Susan Sarandon, Tadpole, The Graduate, White Palace, Woody Allen
