SYNOPSIS Babygirl:
“Babygirl” isn’t a romantic comedy or a romance or even a comedy, though it concerns matters of the heart, and has a friskily impolite sense of humor. Set over what seems like a very long Christmas season, it centers on Romy — a transfixing Nicole Kidman — a married woman who enters a dominant-submissive affair that almost consumes her. It’s a story about women, bodies and the regulation of both, and what it means when a woman surrenders her most secret self. All of which is to say, it’s also about power, but with kinks.
Romy is the chief executive of a slick, growing robotics company that, from its videos, seems to provide warehouse automation. Presumably, the robots moving goods around will eventually make human labor redundant; in the meantime, they serve as a hard-working metaphor for a woman who’s rationalized every aspect of her existence. At her New York apartment, she dresses for another high-flying workday but then slips on a frowzy apron as she packs her juniorbola LINK ALTERNATIF SITUS RESMI SLOT GACOR GAMPANG MENANG children’s lunches with handwritten notes. (The lack of hired help is an off detail.) The apron seems so incongruent with her job and the frictionless perfection of her domestic realm that her puzzled husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas), asks about it.
Babygirl Movie Review Rating:
Director: Halina Reijn
Writer: Halina Reijn
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor
Rating: R
Running: Time1h 54m
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller