The success of the new movie Babygirl has creatively brought the erotic thriller genre back to the spotlight. Nicole Kidman leads the cast of Babygirl as the tech company CEO Romy Mathis, with Harris Dickinson and Antonio Banderas playing important supporting roles.
Audiences may not be able to agree on how erotic the director Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller is, but it’s starting rich conversations.
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While Kidman’s character Romy didn’t wear a pup hood or bark in Babygirl, the dog imagery intermixed with the Dom (me)/sub dynamics throughout the film felt at the very least like a nod to puppy play. (She eats that treat out of Samuel’s hand as he literally pets her!)
The movie, starring Nicole Kidman, operates at the level of the female gaze. Its inversion of erotic thriller tropes leads to fascinating but, at times, tepid results.
Babygirl” follows Romy — who is a married tech company CEO — as she engages in a risky affair with an intern at her company.
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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Venice Film Festival-premiering Babygirl, A24 ’s erotic thriller from writer-director Halina Reijn that stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. It hit theaters December 20.
While there have been debates about whether or not the film fully delivered (there are some Twitter truthers who argue it wasn't that kinky), the general public can all agree on one thing: the film's "Father Figure" scene was pure cinema.
The writer and director Halina Reijn narrates a sequence from her film, featuring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
The much-hyped erotic thriller falls into the trap of sacrificing substance for (mediocre) sex