Sorry, Baby
Humour and heartbreak are beautifully balanced in this American indie film about a university professor confronting her stalled life and tentatively embarking on a new beginning. A highlight of the Sundance Film Festival.
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
In an aching and tender debut feature, Eva Victor displays a tremendous specificity of voice, depicting graduate student-turned-professor Agnes with sensitivity and emotional clarity both before and after her trauma. Infusing the character’s sarcastic wit into its cinematic language of isolation and confusion, Sorry, Baby uses its nonlinear formal structure and five-year duration to capture the complexities and inconsistencies, triumphs and setbacks of Agnes’ attempts to heal.
Sorry, Baby is bursting with life and is much funnier than you would expect from a film about the aftermath of trauma. (source: Sundance Film Festival, adapted)