"Baby Girl" shows the pleasure of women over 40

The film "Baby Girl" is coming up in German cinemas this Thursday - and was already on everyone's lips. This is mainly due to the fact that the erotic drama breaks several taboos. There would be the taboo "affair at the workplace" including power gaps and dependency. Or the taboo "marriage problems and cheating". The taboo "older woman dated younger man" is also served perfectly. And not to forget the taboo that women are still made difficult to rise in a world of work dominated by men. But there is another, particularly large taboo in "Baby Girl", which should actually be none in 2025: the sexual lust of women over 40. stubbornly left cinemas.

Nicole Kidman was recently nominated for the Golden Globes as the best actress in a drama for the female leading role in "Baby Girl". The film star plays Romy Miller, the boss of a large robotic company that is just starting on the stock exchange. She is also married to two children and a renowned theater director (Antonio Banderas). So you could say it works with her. Only the situation in the marriage bed is literally unsatisfactory. After sex including pre -played orgasm, she steals into the next room to masturbate on submission porn.

Suddenly the new, very young intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson) appears and completely turns Romy with his confident and dominant manner. What then develops is a kind of “arthouse soft”: The two begin a passionate affair full of hot S&M games and long suppressed passion.

We already know dynamics of power and submission from "Fifty Shades of Gray". And yet "baby girl" is the complete opposite, because instead of using men's fantasies, the new film shows sex and desire, but also power from a female perspective. This could be because a woman was responsible for the script and director: Halina Reijn. Nicole Kidman said in an interview: "For me it is a unique, new feeling of being completely in the hands of a woman - absolutely liberating!"

While Hollywood has had a lot of bad experiences with attacking producers in the past, Halina Reijn has created a real safe space on the film's set. To do this, she worked with intimacy coordinator, which should prevent limits from being exceeded in the shooting. In an interview, Halina Reijn said that this gave the actors more security - and thus also the courage to test limits. This would open up "a whole new world of creativity and opportunities".

The special thing about "baby girl" is not only that it is a film about female lust, but that the actress, who has one (supposedly not played) orgasm on the canvas, is already 57 years old. So far, the film industry banned women underground as soon as they were over 35, or gave them the roles as mothers or grandmas, while Tom Cruise can still be the sexy action hero at over 60. But films like "Baby Girl" show: women stay sexual beings, even if they are over 50 - and they can be mothers and grandmas at the same time.

Nicole Kidman also told the "Hollywood Reporter" that she would be proud of how director Halina Reijn would show the sexuality of women of advanced age: "I think this film is very liberating. I hope that he is. "But some people also told her," it is the most disturbing film you have ever seen ".