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Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl sets pulses racing at Venice film festival

Film among host of sexually explicit features on this year’s lineup as erotica returns to screens after years of chastity

Babygirl, directed by the Dutch film-maker Halina Reijn, stars Kidman as a high-powered CEO who cheats on her husband (Antonio Banderas) with her much-younger intern (Harris Dickinson). Alongside Babygirl, they include Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, an adaptation of the William S Burroughs novel, which stars Daniel Craig as an American expat in Mexico who becomes infatuated with a younger man (Drew Starkey). “What I often hear from cast is how clear they were on what was happening, how comfortable they felt sharing their needs and boundaries with me, which meant they were able to go deep into their performance… This is a far cry from how things were done in the past - vague, uninformed and in the worst cases, coerced.”

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