"A feature-length homage to the early rush of attraction."—Anna McKibbin, The A.V. Club
"This is a thorny, unflinching declaration of raw female desire—and it is entirely shameless."—Radhika Seth, Vogue
"It’s the sort of intelligent, elegant adult filmmaking that is frequently lacking in modern cinema...genuinely erotic and stylish."—Hannah Strong, Little White Lies
A Blue Carpet Dash Film
Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a polished CEO living in New York City. She lives in a world of careful control, tight scheduling, and an all-too-keen awareness of how she’s perceived at the heights of a male-dominated field. In her own long-term marriage, she has also never truly found pleasure with her sweet, caring, and artistically driven husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas). As Romy attempts to hold together her gilded persona, she is quickly undone after meeting Samuel (Harris Dickinson), an intern who has seemingly come to rescue and torment her from within her cage of suppressed desire—immediately clocking her desire to finally lose control and beginning to prod beyond the surfaces she has so carefully constructed. So begins an unconventional love affair between the high-powered female CEO and her young, audaciously puckish male intern. In its deliciously playful provocations, Babygirl explores the tender, the wickedly funny, and the unexpectedly romantic places that a certain kind of repression can lead to, and where someone will go to find release. It’s a cat and mouse set-up in which the axis of power is constantly, thrillingly shifting, and which at first glance resembles the heyday of sexual thrillers in the ‘90s.
