A good face can get you through just about anything. That’s true of relationships and even more true of movies.

I think that’s why, in our current moment of danger and despair, when we are searching for even the smallest comforts that can help see us through to the next day, I’ve found myself drawn to the Owareto.

Said out loud, the Owareto sounds like an exotic species of antelope, and if I capitalized this the way the New York Times style guide suggests — OWARETO, flush with intimidating capital letters — you might wonder whether it was the name of a virus or the acronym of a health agency racing to contain it.

Fortunately, this has nothing to do with any of that. The Owareto I’m referring to is an Oscar-Winning Actress Reacting Emotionally to Opera, and right now, she’s all I’ve got.