WEEK IN WOMEN: A24 brings Eva Victor’s SORRY BABY to theaters – Brandy McDonnell reports
Starring, written and directed by filmmaker Eva Victor (Billions), the Sundance Film Festival 2025 hit Sorry, Baby opens June 27 in theaters, released by A24. Victor plays a young woman named Agnes who is about to finish graduate school when she is assaulted by her thesis advisor at her small-town New England liberal arts college. The movie begins with Agnes drifting through her days, caught between who she was before the attack, and who she is now. When her best friend, Lydie (Naomie Ackie), returns to their college town to visit Agnes — who now works as a professor at their alma mater — Sorry, Baby progresses by moving back and forth through time. Grief is not a linear process, and so the way viewers learn Agnes’ story isn’t either.
At Sundance Film Festival, Victor won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for what the jury described as the film’s “stunning honesty, moving sense of humor, and an authentic portrait of a young woman living in the aftermath of her sexual assault.”
A24 acquired worldwide rights to the film for close to $8 million just days after Sorry, Baby earned a standing ovation at Sundance.
In May, Victor’s feature film directorial debut went on to close the Directors’ Fortnight section at France’s Cannes Film Festival. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN
