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Releasing on Dec 25, 2024
- 2024
- R
- A24
- 1 h 54 m
- 2024
- R
- A24
- 1 h 54 m
Summary A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern (Harris Dickinson).
Directed By: Halina Reijn
Written By: Halina Reijn
- 2024
- R
- A24
- 1 h 54 m
- 2024
- R
- A24
- 1 h 54 m
Babygirl
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Summary A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern (Harris Dickinson).
Directed By: Halina Reijn
Written By: Halina Reijn
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
82
91% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
82
91% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Reijn has crafted a feature-length homage to the early rush of attraction–one that the director knows can strike unprovoked, regardless of relationship status. Within the film’s 114-minute runtime, that ephemeral spark between Romy and Samuel is bottled, smashed, and left seeping across the screen, leaving an intriguing pattern in its wake.
Babygirl is the rare adult drama that understands that complicated characters can be likable, even if their behavior is sometimes decidedly unlikable; it addresses power and gender dynamics in ways that avoid easy, post-#metoo buzzwords; and it’s going to lead to some really interesting post-screening date-night discussions.
Babygirl takes a few turns we don’t expect, but that’s because the movie’s ambition isn’t just to feed the thriller engine. It’s to capture something genuine about women’s erotic experience in the age of control.
A deliciously barbed, but wise and ultimately hopeful investigation of female sexual desire, marriage and modern power dynamics that takes a hundred touchpoints, from ’80s erotic thrillers to the indie candour of Sex, Lies and Videotape and Secretary, and does something completely new with them.
It’s perverse, juicy fun of a kind we don’t get much of anymore.
Despite its faults, it showcases how much sex scenes can be used to explore character beyond their mere ability to titillate (but don't worry, there's plenty of that as well).
At a different time, I might have been more inclined to entertain Reijn's proposition seriously. But it's just her luck that the great Catherine Breillat, who has devoted her illustrious career to investigating these taboos, dropped a far superior film on the same subject matter, Last Summer, just a few months prior, beating Reijn to the finish line.
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Production Company
2AM,
A24,
Man Up Film
Release Date Dec 25, 2024
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating R
Tagline This Christmas get exactly what you want.
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 2 Nominations