Babygirl review – Nicole Kidman overwhelmed by lust as CEO having torrid and toxic affair

The film opens with an orgasm and closes with another, although it turns out that the first climax was faked, because Romy has never been truly satisfied by her spouse. She confesses to having “dark thoughts”, masturbates compulsively to her laptop and hungers for an adventure to get her out of her rut. This explains why she’s so drawn to Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a twentysomething gofer at Tensile’s New York office whose puckish self-assurance hangs just the right side of insolence. The intern wants her to mentor him; he wants whatever he can get. Arriving at work one morning, Romy sees him taming a wild dog on the street. Just maybe, she thinks, he can tame her as well.