Babygirl Will Make Audiences Ponder If They’re Watching Art Or Porn
Image: Nicole Kidman & Harris Dickinson in Babygirl.
In erotic thriller Babygirl Nicole Kidman portrays Romy, a high-powered CEO whose excessive sex drive leads to a daring game of seduction with Samuel (Harris Dickinson) an intern young enough to be her son.
“I think you like to be told what to do…I tell you what to do and you do it,” he says and so her hidden dark sexual fantasies evolve.
She deviously tells her husband played by Antonio Banderas that he has never given her an orgasm and that she desperately needs to watch porn during their love making.
The ‘orgasmic’ opening sequence prior to the credits sets the scene, indicating that audiences can expect a provocative and risqué drama in the tradition of Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Conservative audiences who claim to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex and nudity had best steer away from this shocker as they may find it utterly distasteful and perhaps even degrading to the image of women.
This erotic drama makes 90’s sex drama Basic Instinct look like child’s play. It contains excessive graphic sex scenes which leave nothing to the imagination and at times evoked nervous laughter during a recent advanced screening.
Audiences may ponder whether Babygirl is art or porn while they’re watching this steamy drama unfold, which has little to say and has more sizzle than substance. Some of the sex driven scenes are so laughable that many may ask, whatever propelled Nicole Kidman to sign on to act in such a movie? These scenes may also evoke embarrassment for the actress.
There are a couple of highly emotional and realistically acted sequences between Nicole Kidman and Anthony Banderas but not enough to compensate and raise this movie beyond average status.
Nicole Kidman desperately needs a hit movie as she has been described as ‘box office poison’ in certain circles, her movies in the last two decades returning little or no profit.
Produced on a comparatively low budget of US$20 million, sluggish opening weekend box office returns in the US of a mere US$4.5 million (in comparison to US$85 million office takings for 2015’s Fifty Shades Of Grey in the same time frame) clearly indicate that moviegoers have matured and may feel they don’t have the need to watch such perversely oversexed dramas.
Babygirl
**
In Cinemas January 30
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