Cannes 2025: Our review of Sorry, Baby, life after rape according to Eva Victor

After waking the Sundance Festival from its torpor in January, it is the turn of Cannes festival-goers to be stirred between laughter and tears by the delicate Sorry, Baby . A gem that French spectators will be able to discover in theaters on July 23. In the running for the Caméra d'Or, the first film by actress Eva Victor, seen in the series Billions , closed the Filmmakers' Fortnight in style on Thursday evening with its tender and scathing portrait of a researcher trying to get her life back on track after being sexually assaulted by her thesis supervisor.

Eva Victor suggests more than she shows of the founding trauma of Agnes, a doctoral student in literature at a New England university. A wide shot of the professor's house and Agnes slamming the door and running off like a rabbit... What interests the young 31-year-old director, who also plays the heroine, is showing what comes after: the path taken one step forward, two steps back, towards reconstruction.

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