Babygirl Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson
It's easy to be excited by a thriller, especially an erotic one. The genre is designed to elicit that response in us. But with Babygirl, writer-director Halina Reijn has delivered an erotic thriller so confident and so fully formed that it also left me excited for it. I can't wait to see this movie released in the world. It feels calibrated exactly right to its time.
Romy wants to be dominated by Samuel, but when he gives her an order, sometimes the CEO responds. Sometimes the vulnerable woman does. Sometimes, usually when she brings up his age, she feels protective over him in a way that's uncomfortably maternal. Each of these dynamics comes with different levers of power, and part of the fun of Babygirl is never knowing which one they'll pull.
I found this brilliant, in conception and execution. Despite its clear genre packaging, Babygirl is essentially character-driven, its shape determined by whoever each character chooses to behave as at any given moment. It forces us to really pay attention to these people and look beyond their easily digestible packaging. We are submerged in the moral murk Romy finds herself in, where our judgment is not so easily rendered, and forced to find our own way through.
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