Moviegoers may have noticed some similarities between Babygirl – Nicole Kidman‘s new film about a powerful CEO having an affair with one of her young interns (Harris Dickinson) – and Eyes Wide Shut, Kidman’s 1999 collaboration with then-husband Tom Cruise and celebrated director Stanley Kubrick. Both films are sexually charged character studies about illicit affairs set at Christmastime. According to writer-director Halina Reijn, these similarities are no coincidence. Her film is in direct conversation with the Kubrick mind-melter, only instead of following a man, Reijn’s film follows a woman in a static relationship seeking sexual satisfaction outside her marriage.
Halina Reijn wrote ‘Babygirl’ in response to Nicole Kidman’s storyline in Stanley Kubrick’s ’90s thriller. Read More