In this romantic adult drama set over a holiday season, Nicole Kidman plays powerful married CEO Romy, who falls into a passionate affair with handsome new young intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson), putting both her career and family life at risk as the power dynamics shift between them. Indeed, the power-play between these two controlling and manipulative personalities is portrayed in an interesting way, as Samuel increasingly inveigles his way into Romy's work and personal life and Romy wavers between dominance and submission. The film is of course carried by its two fantastic lead actors, with Kidman giving yet another of her compelling and precise character performances that has marked her later career, and Dickinson again proves himself to be a nuanced and committed screen actor, and there is a nicely-judged supporting turn from Antonio Banderas as Romy's oblivious devoted husband. At its heart this may be pulpy female romantic fantasy, at times playing like an oddly elevated and classy 50 Shades story, and the may be some confusing gender messaging in the third act, but for the most part this is a mature, quiet and carefully-controlled drama that positively luxuriates in the skills of its two lead actors.
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