Director: Halina Reijn
Genre: Thriller/
Drama
Runtime: 114
minutes
Year:
2024
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther
McGregor, Vaughan Reilly
Description: A high powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) puts her career
and family in the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger
intern (Harris Dickinson).
Review: Romy Mathis has made it. She is the CEO of a company specializing in AI
and robotics, and her marriage to stage director Jacob has lasted for years.
But one day, during an anxious moment, she meets twenty-something Samuel. Who
she lates sees back at her company as an intern. Samuel takes a brutal,
confrontational and transgressive attitude toward Romy; to the point that she
is completely thrown off guard. Samuel continues to challenge her and
eventually Romy gives in. She risks paying a high price for a slip-up that
grows into much more than that.
This is the second
English-language film by once actress ut now established Dutch filmmaker Halina
Reijn (previously directed “Bodies Bodies Bodies”). “Babygirl” is an erotic
thriller, like many that were made in the nineties. Yet fresh and surprising,
because we now see through the eyes of the woman, who is not always allowed to
act morally pure. The film does not believe in good and bad, but lustfully digs
in the gray area in between.
Kidman shines as the complex
Romy and the film manages to break taboos as well as explore current themes
around consent and gender roles.
Rating: 3,5/ 5
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