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How ‘Babygirl,’ ‘The Substance’ and ‘The Room Next Door’ Fight Against Society’s Standards for Women
Female protagonists in films like 'Babygirl,' 'The Substance' and 'The Room Next Door' fight back against modern society’s standards for women
Director and co-writer Pedro Almodóvar’s brilliantly colored “The Room Next Door” stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as estranged friends who reconnect when the latter’s character opts for euthanasia instead of slowly and painfully succumbing to cancer. Director-writer Marielle Heller’s metaphoric black comedy-horror “Nightbitch” is an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel about motherhood, in which a harried yet loving mom (Amy Adams) transforms into a dog as she increasingly loses her own identity while raising her young son. Reijn also acknowledges that this character’s costumes, hair and makeup don’t make him conventionally attractive but rather have him styled in a way of the so-called “hot rodent man” aesthetic associated with younger Hollywood It Guys like Jeremy Allen White, Barry Keoghan and Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist from “Challengers” — another film released this year that mixes the worlds of sex and power and with its own domineering and flawed heroine (Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan).
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