Is it just me or are women much happier than they used to be, up there on the digital silver screen? Compared with, say, five years ago, female characters seem to be doing well financially, getting the most out of love relationships and firmly ensconced in loving family circles. They always seem to get what they want, whether it's a trip to Bali or a cool assignment as a CIA agent. They're in the spotlight, effortlessly and beautifully.
Plus — and this is really important — women of today age with an amazing grace. Check out Isabella Rossellini in "Late Bloomers" for more on this sizzling topic.
"Late Bloomers" has the taste of vintage wine — a tinge of dust, a hint of mold, but with layers of flavor, each yielding some unvoiced story from the past. Rossellini, who turns 60 this year, is roughly the age her mother, Ingrid Bergman, was when she starred in "Autumn Sonata" (1978) — also about a successful and attractive woman coming to terms with aging.