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Actress Nicole Kidman has won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her role in Babygirl. The film was directed by Halina Reijn, who accepted the award on behalf of the absent Kidman.
The actress was absent due to the death of her mother. Reijn read a statement from Kidman. She said that she heard her mother had died shortly after arriving in Venice. She also wrote that she was shocked and that her “heart is broken”.
Babygirl is Reijn’s third film as a director. The thriller tells the story of a top woman who starts an affair with a younger, male colleague. Kidman and Harris Dickinson play the leading roles. International (trade) media are mostly enthusiastic about the film and state that Reijn pushes boundaries when it comes to the representation of female sexuality in films. Reijn made her debut as a director in 2019 with the Dutch thriller Instinct, followed in 2022 by her Hollywood debut, the satirical horror Bodies Bodies Bodies. Babygirl will not be shown in Dutch cinemas until early 2025.
