Nicole Kidman returns to the big screen for one of the most bold roles of her career, according to her own words, Babygirl by director Halina Reijn (“Bodies, Bodies , Bodies ”) opens this week in cinemas ( in Brazil) distributed by Diamond Filmes and produced by A24.
The plot hinges on the insatiable desires of Romy (Nicole Kidman), a powerful CEO of a logistics startup who begins the movie in a “scandalous” scene in a game of seduction, manipulation and fetishes that she wants to be satisfied with. Her husband (Antônio Bandeiras) is no longer able to satisfy her satisfactorily
One day she becomes fascinated by a mysterious man who manages to subdue an angry dog with a whistle and cookies in the middle of the street.
Who could he be? She soon discovers that he is one of the company's new trainees.
He (Harris Dickinson of the triangle of sadness and the iron claw), whose name we discover later in the movie, also seems to have his eye on the powerful Romy and is already starting to defy the impositions imposed by the corporate world and playing the good guy who eats quietly, and then there's the game of seduction with his manipulations. The mentoring program with the sofa test has never been so on fire!
Moral bias vs. satisfaction bias
At the same time, it's more about the subjectivity of what Romy wants to be satiated by, whether it's a glass of milk, submission, the forbidden or having a younger body, whether or not she wants to play this game, but with the bias of morality and the bias of satisfaction, which influences the decisions and actions of the characters and what they have in terms of self-image and control of situations in order to satisfy their needs.
There's a level of curiosity about the film that is intensified by the behind-the-scenes news. Of course, it's worth highlighting the performance of Nicole, who plays this character who doesn't look like a dominatrix, but who at certain moments shows her cynicism in a way that those who are eating out of her hand may not be who you imagine them to be
To paraphrase the singerPabllo Vittar ( amor de q... )“I have a very different way of loving What you don't see is that the others lie I'm telling the truth in front of you”.
Romy seems to be turned on by the danger involved, and it seems that she fears being caught in the act, even more so by her husband, even more so when it begins to take on more conflicting contours.
Despite this, the film fails to tell a story of a more accentuated game of seduction, because we know that Nicole is great, but the script or direction needs to hit the G-spot to give more nuance to the longings or chemistry that it sets out to show, or if it is related to films that bring this theme, giving examples of fatal attraction, Indecent Proposal, guilt and desire, Hjärter Dam
Here, the other parallel stories, such as the daughter (Esther Rose McGregor) who cheats on her girlfriend or the supposed sorority of Romy's personal assistant (Sophie Wilde) linked to blackmail, are brushed aside.
*Esther Rose McGregor, who in real life is the daughter of actor Ewan McGregor, who was once Nicole Kidman's romantic partner in the film Moulin Rouge.
However, there are scenes and comic moments involving Nicole, Antonio Bandeiras and Harris Dickinson that will make you laugh and sigh. and the eroticism and sensuality are also there, just not as much as you might expect.
The movie's soundtrack is a very positive point in the plot, lately I see that we have good movies with great soundtracks?
And after all, is it really the manipulator who is manipulated?
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