The Surprising Sexual Politics of Nicole Kidman’s Kinky ‘Babygirl’
One of 2024’s biggest hits featured an unfairly maligned woman who channels her galvanic anger into a fight against fascism. (I’m talking, of course, about “Wicked.”) Demi Moore gave a scenery-chewing performance in “The Substance,” a gruesome body horror film about the pressure on women to stay nubile. Amy Adams starred in Marielle Heller’s supernaturally inflected “Nightbitch,” in which a woman starts to go feral, perhaps literally, amid the tedium of early motherhood. Mikey Madison was incandescent as a street-smart sex worker from a post-Soviet country in “Anora,” a movie that takes the silly Cinderella fantasy behind “Pretty Woman” and explodes it.
2024 年最熱門電影之一的主角是一名受到不公正誹謗的女性，她將自己的暴怒轉化為對抗法西斯主義的鬥爭。 （當然，我說的是《邪惡女巫》。）黛米摩爾在《物質》中進行了一場咀嚼風景？？的表演，這是一部關於女性保持適婚壓力的可怕身體恐怖電影。艾美亞當斯(Amy Adams) 主演了瑪麗埃爾海勒(Marielle Heller) 的超自然風格的《夜母狗》(Nightbitch)，片中一名女性在早期母親的單調乏味中開始變得狂野(也許是字面上的意思)。米奇·麥迪遜在《阿諾拉》中扮演了一位來自後蘇聯國家的街頭性工作者，這部電影將《風月俏佳人》背後愚蠢的灰姑娘幻想徹底顛覆。
"Chewing the scenery" is an informal idiom that describes an actor's performance as energetic, emotional, and artificial, rather than natural. For example, you might describe an actor's performance as "chewing the scenery" if they are overacting or acting in a way that is distracting
But perhaps the most unlikely feminist film of the year is the much-hyped, extremely kinky “Babygirl,” starring Nicole Kidman, which opens on Dec. 25. It’s a movie that satirizes the archetype of the girlboss but ultimately affirms it. On the cusp of our terrible new era, it felt, for all its darkness and perversity, like an artifact of a more optimistic moment, when equality seemed close enough at hand that the orgasm gap between men and women — something the movie’s director, Halina Reijn, often talks about in interviews — could be a subject of serious concern.
但今年最不可能的女權主義電影也許是大肆宣傳、極度變態的《女嬰》，由妮可·基德曼主演，將於12 月25 日上映。最終肯定了它。在我們可怕的新時代的風口浪尖上，儘管它充滿黑暗和反常，但它感覺就像是一個更樂觀時刻的產物，，以至於男女之間的性高潮（當時平等似乎觸手可及）差距——電影導演哈琳娜雷恩經常在採訪中談到——可能是一個值得嚴重關注的話題。
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Marisa Paredes, Acclaimed in Almodóvar Films, Is Dead at 78
An esteemed Spanish actress, she was best known for her work in Pedro Almodóvar’s movies like “All About My Mother.” But their relationship was stormy.
因阿爾莫多瓦電影而廣受讚譽的瑪麗莎·帕雷德斯去世，享年 78 歲
她是一位受人尊敬的西班牙女演員，因在佩德羅·阿莫多瓦的電影《關於我母親的一切》中的表演而聞名。但他們的關係卻風雨飄搖。
「這個職業，」她在獲得戈雅獎時接受採訪時說道，需要「絕對的嚴謹和認真」。
她補充說：“這需要奉獻精神、勇氣和力量——不要被灰心打敗。”
“This profession,” she said in an interview around the time she received her Goya Award, calls for “absolute rigor and seriousness.”
She added: “It requires dedication, courage, strength — not being defeated by discouragement.”
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