NEWS ANALYSIS. Several recent films, including Halina Reijn's 'Babygirl,' feature blossoming romances between women and younger partners. This is hypocritical at a time when the digital age has erased the very notion of flesh.
Babygirl has been billed as an erotic thriller: the erotic part is accurate, but it’s hardly a thriller. All up, it’s a much more ambitious movie than expected.
Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl” centers on an illicit BDSM affair between high-strung CEO Romy Mathis (Nicole Kidman) and her much younger intern, Samuel (Harris Dickinson). Though he tells her ...
Writer-director Halina Reijn began as an actress, which explains why performance and theater games often make their way into her projects — especially her latest Babygirl. The film stars Nicole Kidman as a woman whose seemingly picture perfect life is ...
Help support the DJs, journalists, and staff of the station you love. Halina Reijn, the writer and director of the erotic drama “Babygirl” talks getting on the floor with her actors and being fascinated by human behavior. Filmmaking legend Paul ...
Stanley Kubrick has been dead for more than a quarter of a century, and yet, there is still a project of his that is languishing in purgatory, neither alive nor completely buried. Throughout his nearly five-decade career, Kubrick made some of the most ...
That wasn’t out of the ordinary for Stanley Kubrick, even if there is an air of sheer pointlessness to the director’s infamously exacting standards. Some filmmakers, most famously Clint Eastwood, will only shoot a couple of takes before moving on.
After being surprisingly shut out of the Academy Awards, director Halina Reijn's erotic thriller Babygirl has some reason to celebrate. The movie passed a new global box office milestone this ...
"Father Figure" was written into the first draft of Babygirl's script that Currier received from writer/director Halina Reijn. "It was always in her mind," Currier told Mashable over Zoom.
Writer/director Halina Reijn and actor Harris Dickinson discuss the layers of Babygirl, an erotic thriller that subverts genre norms. Reijn delves into the film’s metaphorical death, and how ...
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Payal Kapadia, meanwhile, has been making waves with her presence in the international circuit, and her recent presence in the writers’ roundtable of The Hollywood Reporter alongside the likes of Halina Reijn (Babygirl), James Mangold (A Complete Unknown ...