Babygirl

Reviewed by Tobias Luvenberg. Review at Santa Barbara Film Festival.

The movie Babygirl is about a girl at the age of fifteen, she lives in a little apartment with her little sister and with her mum. Lena  is struggling with her mum because she always meet bad guys that doesn’t care about her or the family. When Lena thinks everything is good, her mother met this guy Victor on the bus, Lucy (the mother) starts to think Victor is a fun guy and starts to date him and starts to fall in love with him. Lena who thinks this guy Victor is a bad guy and is bad for her mother is going to anything to get rid of him from the family.

When Lena has her sixteen birthday she have everyone that she cares for at the party, even the creepy Victor that gives her the look and starts to flirt with her even more than before. Lena had told her best friend Daishan about the problem, but Daishan seems not to care that much because she has her own crush on a boy that is at the same age as them. While Lena has to think about a plan to get rid of Victor she meet a guy named Xavier that thinks Lena is handsome and starts to flirt with her. Lena, Daishan, Xavier and his friend starts to hang out with each other, but the problem is that Daishan like this guy Xavier, but he is not interested in Daishan. While Lena is not there Daishan starts to talk shit behind Lenas back. Lena has to found a way to get rid of Victor by her self without any help from friends or family members.

Lena had been on a date with Victor that went smoothly, but everything get worse. Victor didn’t break up with her mum as he said. Lena Had to do something, so she told Lucy that she had been on a date with Victor and that he had kissed her. She had succeeded, she finally got her mum to break up with Victor, but she had to take a price by her own too, she had to leave the home. It took some time for her mother to know what she had done, she had thrown her own daughter to the dangerous street of Bronx.