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Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn has made a BDSM film rife with fumbling uncertainty, and anchored by two ferociously committed performances from Kidman and Harris Dickinson

Film critic Emma Jones tells us why Nicole Kidman's latest role – as an executive who embarks on an affair with her intern – is perhaps more shocking for a Hollywood audience than a European one. Her performance in "Babygirl" won Kidman the best actress prize at the Venice Film Festival;