US EditionReview: ‘Sorry, Baby’ is a witty, moving portrait of life in the aftermath of a college assault
RURAL MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE TOWN, JUL 7 – Sorry, Baby explores the long-term emotional impact of college sexual assault through Agnes’ story, highlighting trauma and healing with a nuanced, semi-autobiographical approach.
- The film Sorry, Baby, written, directed, and starred in by Eva Victor, opens on July 10 at Cinema 21, depicting life after a college sexual assault in a Massachusetts town.
- Victor developed Sorry, Baby from her personal experience known as The Bad Thing, focusing on how to film the assault by emphasizing what not to show.
- The story centers on Agnes, a nonbinary English professor overcoming trauma while navigating daily relationships, with dry humor from interactions with others.
- The film received 3.5 out of 4 stars, runs 103 minutes, is rated R for sexual content and language, and was a Sundance hit for A24.
- Sorry, Baby offers a clear-eyed, semi-autobiographical view of suffering and healing, suggesting lasting impact of trauma amid routine life.
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While that kitten is a BABY, it is not THE baby in Sorry, Baby. by HR Smith Upon seeing the poster for Sorry, Baby—a shot of the film's protagonist, Agnes, looking into the eyes of a tiny gray kitten—my partner immediately dropped their ironclad no-spoilers protocol and began frantically texting a source who had seen it premiere at Sundance. Did “Sorry, Baby” apply to the kitten (clearly a baby)? Was misfortune due to befall the kitten? We live …
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Review: ‘Sorry, Baby’ is a witty, moving portrait of life in the aftermath of a college assault
“Write what you know” only gets you so far. An awful lot of debut films, even from writer-directors with talent, start from a personal place only to end up at a weirdly impersonal “universal” one you don’t fully believe, or trust. “Sorry, Baby” is so, so much better than that. Eva Victor’s first feature as writer-director, and star, feels like a lived experience, examined, cross-examined, ruminated over, carefully shaped and considered. Its tone…
Sorry Baby Is A Moving Story Of Hope - Skewed 'n Reviewed
Sorry, Baby is a delicate portrayal of human response that follows something terrible. While many films or stories might focus on the incident itself as being the traumatic experience, writer, director, and actor Eva Victor chooses to focus less on the incident that occurred and instead captures a subtle, honest human response to working through the trauma that follows. At the beginning of the film, we are introduced to Agnes (Eva Victor), who is
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