Back in February, A24 bought “Sorry Baby,” the most acclaimed film of Sundance 2025, for $8M, and no doubt an awards campaign will be mounted for it by the fall. For now, the film is set for release on June 27, with a pit stop at Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight later this month. Here’s the trailer.
Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Eva Victor’s tragi-comic debut was one of the few and significant sells of this year’s lacklustre Sundance. I’ve seen “Sorry, Baby,” and although I found it to be a strongly evocative debut for Victor, herself a social media star and comedian, I don’t entirely buy the hype behind this film. That 88 on Metacritic is over-the-top, and so are some of the reviews calling it a “masterpiece.” Maybe a second look at Cannes will change my mind.
In the film, Victor plays Agnes, a sexual assault victim who can’t seem to brush off the scarring incident, even as “life goes on,” and her dream to become a university professor turns into a reality. The film, shot with an astute eye for comic detail by Victor, is filled with the quirks and story beats that have turned the token “Sundance movie” into its own cliche. Yet, Victor does bypass these same cliches with the kind of wit, and wisdom, that doesn’t always come with #MeToo movies.