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‘Babygirl’: Read The Screenplay For Halina Reijn’s Erotic Thriller That Couples Up Nicole Kidman & Harris Dickinson
Babygirl, the erotic thriller from writer-director Halina Reijn, stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Venice Film Festival-premiering Babygirl, A24 ’s erotic thriller from writer-director Halina Reijn that stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. Crafted with the female gaze in mind, Reijn’s film joins a subculture of cinematic explorations into eroticism and kink, from the sexual thrillers of the ’90s to classics like Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter(1974), Adrian Lyne’s 9 ½ Weeks(1986) and Steven Shainberg’s Secretary(2002) starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. As Romy and Samuel haltingly explore sexual fantasies, laying out then relishing in bending the rules and boundaries of their dalliance, the film confronts our culture’s great thorny shadow — power and sex — only to gleefully flip it all on its back, upside down, and right-side up again.
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