Male “menopause” on screen: they also suffer from insecurities (and libido decline).

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Talking about menopause It still, to this day, enters hostile territory filled with shame, guilt, and uncertainty. But it has nothing to do with andropause, a large proportion of middle-aged men who fear declining testosterone levels this often includes a decline in sexual abilities. Audio-visual fiction, always ready to explore taboos and contemporary traumas, took the silent horror of men for a walk in subsequent series and films.

‘This is life!’

“A movie about the fragility of the human condition”, read its poster Blake Edwards comedy drama. To be precise, your masculine status. Anti-hero Harvey Fairchild (Jack Lemmon) is a wealthy architect approaching 60 in Malibu. real and imaginary pain and a dissatisfaction with everything and everyone that even his wife’s (Julie Andrews) parties could not alleviate. Let’s not laugh too much at the psychological implications of the movie: As with ‘My Problems with Women’, Edwards enlisted the help of renowned psychoanalyst Milton Wexler to write the script.

‘American beauty’

Now that mentioning Kevin Spacey is penalized, it may be hard to believe, but this Sam Mendes movie was once on everyone’s lips. And often to brag about it. Screenwriter Alan Ball combined darkest satire with emotional truth To shape this portrait of an ad executive (a bit like ‘Six Feet Under’) locked in a callous job and marriage, who thinks he can find his vital horizons in his teenage daughter’s cheerleader girlfriend. Andropause or ridiculous peterpanism? Arguing by avoiding a specific name.

‘Lost in translation’

Sofia Coppola He certainly did his masterwork with this offbeat romantic comedy that explores Tokyo’s vibrant urban frenzy and is a kind of ‘Short Encounter’ updated for SMS days. Young Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) wrinkled Bob (Bill Murray) a temporary friendship, maybe a love story, but not sex. Much has been made about the shocking moral turn of events, but what if Bob didn’t dare to go beyond the platonic just because of andropausal neurosis?

“Kominsky method”

When we thought we knew what was going on with comedy creator Chuck Lorre (“Two and a Half Men”, “Big Bang”) The ‘Kominsky method’ came to surprise us with its desire for intimacy and its reflection on age.. That seventy-year-old acting coach (Michael Douglas) and his eighty-year-old manager and best friend (Alan Arkin) should already have half the testosterone they had during their hormonal peak days. And they get up twice as often to urinate. But they still have the energy to dress well, flirt, or argue energetically, especially among themselves.

andropause

The title already says it all: This turkish comedy is a catalog of midlife male diseases.. The lead actor Yusuf (Engin Günaydın) is having a bad time in his fifties and believes that dyeing his hair blonde or opening an Instagram account will rejuvenate him. As if living like this wasn’t hard enough, her life turns into a complete mess when a doctor tells her she may be suffering from andropause. The most trivial of all the offers listed here.

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