Director: Halina Reijn
Power, control, and the fear of losing both collide in Babygirl, a tense psychological drama that follows a company CEO whose carefully built life starts to unravel the moment she lets her guard down.
What is Babygirl about?
Romy runs her company with total command, the kind of confidence that took decades to build and could unravel in a single misstep. That control starts to slip when a much younger intern enters her orbit and the two begin a relationship that has nothing to do with the boundaries Romy has spent her career enforcing. What starts as a private arrangement quickly becomes a pressure point on every part of her life: her marriage, her standing at the company she leads, and the image of composure she's built for the people around her. Director Halina Reijn frames the affair less as scandal and more as a study of desire colliding with authority, asking what it costs a woman at the top to want something she can't control. As the relationship deepens, so does the risk of exposure, and Romy has to weigh what she's willing to lose against what she's no longer willing to give up.
Cast & crew
Nicole Kidman plays Romy with a mix of steel and vulnerability that carries the film, opposite Harris Dickinson's quietly unsettling turn as the intern, with Antonio Banderas rounding out the cast as Romy's husband.
Context & significance
Babygirl premiered in 2024 and quickly became a talking point for its frank, unflinching approach to a story about a woman's desire and power, a rarer angle in a genre that has usually centered the same dynamic from the other side. The film also drew attention for pairing an established star with a rising newcomer in a story built almost entirely around the shifting balance between them.
Where & how to watch
Babygirl is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, through an interface built entirely in Farsi for Iranian audiences abroad. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to start watching right away, and that same account works across phones, tablets, and TVs.