He thriller eroticadapted to the female gaze, returns to the Venice Film Festival with two of the most famous faces in Hollywood, Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett.
Kidman is the actress who flirted with infidelity in “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) and who in recent years has successfully alternated television series of the same tone (“Big Little Lies”, “Expats”) with film projects (“A Family Affair”).
This Friday debuts in competition “Babygirl“, a movie which has left its mark on her, as she confessed to Vanity Fair magazine.
Especially for its scenes explicit sex and by the relationship of trust that he was able to establish with his director, the Dutch Halina Reijn, 49, for whom this is only her third movie and its first selection at a major festival.
“In my films I have explored many themes through the prism of sexuality“, he declared Nicole Kidman to the magazine. “I haven’t avoided that or tried to pretend it didn’t exist.”
However, the movie presented in Venice marks a milestone, and filming it was “a very strange feeling. It’s something you normally do and reserve for your personal videos. It’s not meant to be seen by everyone!” he confessed.
In “Babygirl“, the 57-year-old Australian-American actress plays a businesswoman married to a theatre director (Antonio Flags64 years old).
“Sexually unsatisfied in her relationshipseeks solace in a relationship sadomasochistic film with a young intern, for which he risks his career and his family,” described the director of the Mostra, Alberto Barbera, when presenting the movie.
The young man in question is played by Harris Dickinson28 years old, discovered in the Palme d’Or “No Filter”.
– Cuaron “terrified” –
Star in the Apple TV series “Observed” (“Disclaimer”), Cate Blanchett He also puts himself in the shoes of a women A professionally successful journalist married to a senior official at a humanitarian NGO (Sacha Baron Cohen), who made a mistake with a young man decades ago and is now tormented by the consequences.
Someone mysteriously publishes a novel that narrates with exactly what happened.
The Mexican Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”) signs this seven-chapter television series that also contains scenes high voltage eroticalthough with a peculiarity: the character of Blanchett Twenty years younger, she is played by another actress, Leila Georges.
The first episodes of this thriller They were presented on Thursday evening at the Lido, to a great reception from the public.
“Shame, the regrets And the lessons you can learn from that are very powerful,” he explained. Blanchett at the press conference.
Cuaron adapted a successful novel to create this series. A veteran director, twice Oscar winner, he also has experience with television series. But he confessed to journalists that when he started working on this project, he was “terrified” thinking that Blanchett could turn down the role.
“It was with her cas there was “I have seen the whole project from the beginning,” he confessed.
– New perspectives –
“Fatal Liaison”, “Basic Instinct”, “9 and a Half Weeks”… the genre of thriller erotic It had its heyday in the cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, but suffered the attacks after the #MeToo movement.
The stories have begun to diversifyfollowing films such as “Portrait of a women “On Fire,” about desire and the female gaze, as well as filming practices, with the now systematic use of intimacy coordinators in the United States.
A classic of the eroticism“Emmanuelle“, directed by the French director Audrey Diwan, will inaugurate the Festival of Saint Sebastian on the 25th September.
