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Babygirl (2024)

Director: Halina Reijn Run Time: 114 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Esther-Rose McGregor, Harris Dickinson, Nicole Kidman, Sophie Wilde

Country: United States, Netherlands
Language: English

About the film:

World Premiere, 2024 Venice Film Festival, Volpi Cup for Best Actress. A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern. Starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, and Sophie Wilde

“The movie’s ambition isn’t just to feed the thriller engine. It’s to capture something genuine about women’s erotic experience in the age of control.”

—Owen Gleiberman for Variety

About the filmmaker: 

Halina Reijn is a renowned Dutch director, actress, author and producer. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the Golden Calf for Best Actress. Her critically acclaimed directorial feature film debut Instinct (2019) was selected for film festivals in Locarno, Toronto, BFI London, Ghent, and Chicago, and was The Netherlands’ submission to the 92nd Academy Awards for Foreign Language Film.

Reijn was professionally trained at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts and debuted on stage in 1997 as Ophelia in Hamlet. Reijn works with internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove at the International Theatre Amsterdam, performing their plays all over the world. She starred in the Oscar-nominated film Zus & Zo (2001), in Paul Verhoeven’s critically acclaimed Black Book (2006) and in Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie (2008) opposite Tom Cruise. She can also be seen in the Swedish series Conspiracy of Silence (2018) directed by Charlotte Brändström.

Reijn’s English-language directorial debut, Bodies Bodies Bodies, was released in 2022 by A24 Films. It premiered at SXSW in March 2022, securing the second best opening weekend amongst limited release films and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Babygirl (2024) is her latest project and second direct collaboration with A24.

 

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