Babygirl, directed by Halina Reijn

An early but strong favourite for 2025 is Babygirl. The film brilliantly captures a woman’s erotic experiences without shying away from the jagged edges of these desires, and Nicole Kidman’s performance is already one of the main talking points of awards season.

Kidman plays a powerful CEO, Romy, who engages in a forbidden affair with an alluring and much younger intern, Samuel, played by Harris Dickinson. Romy seems to have it all. A glamorous job at a robotics firm. A handsome theatre director for a husband and two teenage daughters. A beautiful home in the New York suburbs. But she still feels as though something is missing from her life – in particular her sex life.

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