Birth (2004)

Horror Queers

It's a 'Joe pick' for the second week of our Gay Icons & Anniversaries theme as the boys discuss Jonathan Glazer's modern classic Birth (2004).

Starring Nicole Kidman as a woman grieving her dead husband, Birth was a lightning rod for controversy, but it's so much more than its bathtub scene and reincarnation plot.

Plus: why Bright's casting prompted a complete script rewrite, ties to Rosemary's Baby, a superb Anne Heche, and the two minute long take that should have earned Kidman an Oscar nom. This is a gay masterpiece, people!

References:

> "Revisiting Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, 20 years on." Dazed

> Stephen Gillespie. Revenants of Memory: An Analysis of Glazer’s Birth. The Twin Geeks.

> Glenn Whipp. "Nicole Kidman on making ‘Birth’ and why she chooses films that aren’t a ‘soothing bath.’" LA Times

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