Achieving erotic vision on the silver screen is not an easy task for a film director. It can quickly fall into an abyss of total embarrassment or pornography. A new film, “Babygirl” (2024), doesn’t fall completely into either abyss, but it never truly realizes its potential.
Directed by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn, “Babygirl” focuses on Romy Mathis (Nicole Kidman), a CEO of a powerful tech company on the cutting edge of automation. She is, by all the cliched means, a woman in power. She has a husband, Jacob (played superbly by Antonio Banderas), and two daughters, and the family is seemingly living a happy life — except Jacob does not satisfy her sexually. Romy has a weakness, “dark thoughts,” in her own words, that
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