In Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut, Alice, played by Nicole Kidman, tells her husband William (Tom Cruise) about her sexual fantasies about a man they saw on a trip together. This leads William on a journey that spirals into the kind of spiral depicted in the film.

But with her latest film, “Babygirl,” writer/director Halina Raine wanted to flip the script, and as she told EW, she asked herself, “What if I had a story about Alice, a woman who is a woman who has a sexual fantasy about a man? 'What if [Alice] lived her own fantasy?' That's my answer to the men in Eyes Wide Shut, with a sense of playfulness and humility.”

So basically: “Baby Girl” is a fan fiction of “Eyes Wide Shut” through a feminist lens.

In the famous 1999 film, “We follow Tom Cruise everywhere. We don't even know what [Alice] is going through. We are completely in his heart, mind, and soul.”

“All of us women are ready and hungry to see and hear stories from our perspective, how we feel,” she added.

The director also drew inspiration from another woman who blows up her life to go after what she wants: the Henrik Ibsen play “Hedda Gabler,” which Jacob, played by Antonio Banderas, is directing in “Baby Girl.”

Raine, a multi-hyphenate (who has appeared in several productions throughout Europe), decided to use the play as a foil for Kidman's Romy, and to splash the play's implications about pursuing liberation as a woman (see (Spoiler alert: “Hedda Gabler” commits suicide at the end of the play).

“As a stage actress, I was very frustrated by the fact that all of the characters I played who were seeking freedom died. 'I was very fed up with that. I want to see women who liberate themselves and actually stay alive.”

To this we can only say! Sermon!

“After all, it's about a woman who destroys her life in order to be reborn. [Baby Girl] is my version of Hedda Gabler. ' [Romy] thinks she's trapped in her marriage. But in the end, she's just trapped in herself.

Ultimately, Lane said, “I wanted the film to be a film in which the particular sexuality they share becomes a metaphor for any sexual fantasy anyone might have. The moment we feel our hunger or desire, we immediately feel shame. We need to let ourselves go.”

Needless to say, when women liberate their sexuality, everyone wins. So when “Baby Girl” is released on Christmas Day, we shall be seated.