Nicole Kidman plays a high-flying, married businesswoman who begins an affair with an intern half her age. It's a lead performance more daring than the film itself.
Nicole Kidman plays a high-flying, married businesswoman who begins an affair with an intern half her age. It's a lead performance more daring than the film itself.Ever since silent film audiences swooned for Rudolph Valentino and the vamp Theda Bara, the movies have packed a sexual charge. But filmmakers have always had trouble dealing with sex head-on.
At once mumbling and aggressive, like a '50s method actor, Samuel somehow sees straight into Romy's roiling psyche. Their early meetings always have a sexual edge, and Samuel senses that Romy fantasizes about being ordered what to do. Though she initially resists his inappropriate forwardness — getting involved with interns is, after all, strictly forbidden — we know it's only a matter of time. After a bit of verbal sparring, he has Romy doing his bidding in the bedroom. He calls her"Babygirl," and helps her achieve the pleasure she's longed for.promises a daringly grown-up look at both sexuality and power.
This matters in a film where both Romy and Samuel keep using the word"power." Romy may run the company but she's also an HR nightmare; Samuel could shipwreck her career with a few well-chosen words. I kept waiting to find out what Samuel is after and what tough choices their dangerous liaison will force her to make.
All of which feels out of touch with our post-MeToo era. After all, if a male CEO had kinky sex with a young female intern, I don't think current audiences would give him a pass just because she made him happier in bed than his wife.
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