“In Spain the Church has always had power, and a woman who wanted to enjoy herself was called a slut.”

2023-10-25 22:10:44

Kiti Mánver’s strength is contagious. It is not a force that is based on demonstration and exhibition, but is calmly present in every response, in every statement. At 70 years old, she is living a sweet moment in an industry where she did not always feel comfortable and from which she even thought about retiring several times. Thank goodness she didn’t. She would have missed the career of an actress who has left unforgettable roles with the best directors in the history of Spanish cinema in recent decades. Almodóvar, Urbizu, De la Iglesia, Gutiérrez Aragón…

After having done everything, you might think that Kiti Mánver would like comfortable roles, being in what everyone defines as a ‘comfort zone’. And yet, she now stars in a movie like Mamacruz, about female sexuality in older people and which arrives in theaters this Friday, October 27. If last year it was Emma Thompson who broke taboos with her nude in Good luck, Big Leoand Petra Martínez with her speech on masturbation at the Feroz awards, this season it is the Spaniard’s turn to become an icon that calls for the diversity of bodies, for sexual enjoyment at any age and for freeing ourselves from the weight of the Catholicism that represses the desire.