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Sorry, Baby Eva Victor. 2025

House 27 County St, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA See in map

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Sorry, Baby (dir. Eva Victor).

[It] plays with our expectations of how we discuss or avoid discussing sexual violence and its slow-moving recovery. By largely framing the events in their aftermath, Victor foregrounds the victim/survivor's gradual healing through dark humour and an open sense of anxiety.

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Sorry, Baby

directed by Eva Victor, 2025

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In the Hand of Dante streams on Netflix on June 24, 2026.

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Watched Sorry, Baby

Throughout the first vignette, there is a sense of separation of the viewer from Agnes and Lydie: lots of long and extreme long shots; lots of subframing by doorways; Agnes consistently, almost defensively placed alongside Lydie. This adds a layer to the bizarre, often alienating dialog style that Victor utilizes, inheriting its awkwardness and potently unsure footing from Gerwig and Baumbach. Then, the "bad thing" happens, itself separated to the extreme from the audience as we only look on time passing via the house it occurs in (one of many formal references to Woolf's To the Lighthouse, an explicit influence on the film). Once Agnes leaves this house, during the drive home and the bathtub scene, we are allowed to be close to her while she is alone, vulnerable, and fresh from the experience that creates the stagnant atmosphere of the first vignette. The bathtub scene in particular, using perhaps the first close-up in the movie, connects us with the particulars of Agnes' experience on level animal enough to feel bodily transformative. We do not experience the "bad thing" but we do experience the aftermath, the unsureness and alienation that formulates her experience in the rest of the film. Ironically, we feel connected to her primarily in this shared alienation from herself, and Victor's gift of intimacy is also a curse: to understand her alienation requires us to experience it. In the hospital, the school administrative building, and the courtroom, she is alienated, and we are alienated. There are gleaming moments of kindness, frequently from Lydie and once from a sandwich shop owner, that alleviate this constant isolation, but mostly we are caught up in her pain, her humor, and her life as after a certainty but before only doubt.

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How was this goddamn movie a box office bomb?

Do people not know what's good?

It's got this great psychotic meta-narritive going on too. Maggie Gyllenhaal wrote/directed a real goddamn corker.

It's quite layered and clever, unhinged but really very much a story that's special to me. I've always loved Hammer's subverting of the Frankenstein story into Dr Frankenstein as the focus, and science without ethics, this twists it around again with a new feminist tone.

The Creature is introverted, lacks assertiveness at times, is sadly submissive (in bad ways) from all the terrible things people have done to him for 100 years, he has negative self esteem, sensitive to rejection, fear of the mob when things inevitably seem to go wrong for him over the years. His loneliness and unloved existence for so long, he's flawed and has a lot of learn about love. The setting was perfect for the story.

And "The Bride" matches and fits with him, she's assertive and loud, she's free-spirited, authentic and unconventional, well spoken and a little disturbed. And has a million surprises.

Peter Sarsgaard's character is flawed, but he's a good man in the scheme of things. He's great partner to Penelope Cruz's character. Truly very sweet and authentic friendship.

And the bookending with Annette Bening's Dr. Euphronious, she's a fucking goddess of the screen. [To think she started in my favorite movie The Great Outdoors (1988)]

It's such a well crafted story, its really beautiful and maniacal. And EXEMPLIFIES Women's roles under the patriarchy, and SUBVERTS IT EVEN FURTHER.

IF YOU DON'T WATCH THIS BASED ON REVIEWS OR HOW MUCH IT DIDN'T MAKE, YOU'RE MISSING OUT AN A GRAND PIECE OF ART!!!

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Sorry, Baby (2025) Eva Victor

February 17th 2026

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