Babygirl
Directed by Halina Reijn
Written by Halina Reijn
Starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas
Release Date December 25th, 2024
Published December 5th, 2024
Babygirl is a movie about breaking through the surface to get to something real, a real emotion, a real reaction, a true desire. Beneath the glossy veneer of the life of a multi-millionaire CEO with a handsome playwright husband and two exceptionally well adjusted daughters, is a roiling cauldron of sexual frustration and the twisted, perverse desire to risk it all for the thrill of the elicit and forbidden. The forbidden in this case is a 20 something intern named Samuel with six pack abs and a manner precisely used to push past the boundaries of propriety and polite adherence to expectations.
Nicole Kidman stars in Babygirl as Romy, the high powered CEO of a tech company that is putting many people out of work. Romy justifies this by claiming that her company is relieving people of menial work but this is just her way of justifying profiting from other people’s pain. The grease in the wheels of capitalism is the blood of those at the bottom of the economic ladder but we all politely try and pretend that’s not true. All of us, except for Samuel (Harris Dickinson) who, on his first day as an intern at Romy’s company, bluntly asks the CEO how she feels about putting so many people out of work.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
