Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Blending heartache, humour and healing, Sorry, Baby is the stunning and star-making debut from director, writer and actor Eva Victor, also starring Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges.
As sharp as it is tender, Sorry, Baby is a quietly powerful tale of seizing back your footing after pain, and of the friendships that sustain you along the way. An authentic, bitingly funny drama that marks the arrival of a brilliant new voice in cinema.
The Garden Cinema View:
A tremendous debut from director/writer/star Eva Victor which is at once a highly literate campus comedy, an ode to female (and feline) friendship, and a clear-eyed study of a life stuck in the wake of trauma. With cinematographer Mia Cioffi Henry, Victor constructs a kind of cosy-yet-chilly, coastal Massachusetts setting of always-winter. Along with a handsome liberal arts college, this idyllic environment becomes a physical manifestation of protagonist Agnes’ grief. Her office at the college is her attacker’s; her isolated (and possibly haunted) house still the one she lived in as a grad-student. Sorry, Baby is emotionally raw in places, but ultimately comforting. It’s also frequently very funny (if jokes about Nabokov and Woolf float your boat).
