Mexican actress Ludwika Paleta delves in ‘Deseo’ into an area that cinema and society still look at with suspicion: female sensuality in maturity, the desire of an adult woman, mother and wife.
“Entertainment is there to take it or leave it, but it would be interesting to see this film maybe to question what is the position of some women,” Paleta said in an interview with EFE about this erotic thriller directed by Teresa Simone.
In the film, the actress plays Lucero, a successful lawyer, married for two decades and mother of two teenagers, whose life is altered when she is attracted to her daughter’s young swimming coach, played by Oscar Casas.
Although Lucero lets herself go as she does in the waters of the swimming pool where she meets the young coach, Paleta found this character risky precisely because of the distance between the two: the protagonist acts from impulse, while the actress is much more reflective and controlling.
The film, which is Paleta’s first film to be seen in Spanish theaters and in which she shares the cast with José María Yazpik, Pilar Pascual, Matías Coronado and Leonardo Ortizgris, has been read by some interlocutors as a “very Mexican” story, something she finds curious and perhaps attributes to the way in which age, motherhood and couples are observed in both cultural contexts.
Ludwika Paleta talks about her new movie ‘Deseo’.
When talking about Lucero, Paleta returns to a central idea: not all desires can be followed without measuring consequences. Her character, she says, does not act from certainty, but from a vulnerable zone where others also push her, confuse her or manipulate her. Desire wins her, temptation wins her,” she says.
“One is manipulable as long as one is not sure of what one wants,” reflects the actress, who defines herself as someone much more judicious and controlling.
Paleta believes that therein lies a deeper question than infidelity itself: what is really being sought when crossing a border and what are the consequences of doing so without stopping to look.
“In the end, it’s like going over with you where it comes from. And I think Lucero didn’t have time to do it,” he says.
For the actress, this impulse also forces her to ask herself who is affected by her decision: “Who are you betraying,” Paleta asks, speaking of the consequences that the protagonist cannot measure before letting herself go.
However, ‘Deseo’ is not just the story of an infidelity. Under the eroticism, it opens a conversation about what is not said: fantasies, limits, unsaid agreements, frustrations and forms of desire that are postponed.
“It’s like opening up a sewer and peeking in to see what’s in there,” she notes about those uncomfortable conversations that many relationships prefer to avoid for convenience, reported Agencia EFE.
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