Nicole Kidman focuses on foot through the tulips in sexy thriller, but is it all in his mind?

Holland
Amazon Prime Video
★★★

Nicole Kidman could be one of the greatest stars in the planet’s cinema, but he never prevented her from making choices much more in line with someone who has just started. His preference has long been for bizarre stories, sometimes daring, of interesting writers and directors, in which marriages come under pressure, sexual desire assumes unusual shapes and surface appearances rarely trust.

Best – Think about Gus Van Sant Die for (1995), Jonathan Glazer Birth (2004) and Halina Reijns Babygirl (2024) – Kidman makes fascinating, stimulating and often divisive films. Holland It is not exactly that caliber, but it has a lot to offer the same way.

Kidman plays Nancy Vandergroot, who seems, when we meet her for the first time, will live a life of pure domestic happiness in the picturesque Dutch -style city of Holland, in Michigan, in the year 2000.

“I look around and I feel like a dream,” he says in Voiceover in the opening minutes, while he puts a tulips of tulips for a Kitsch family to collect family. “Before coming here I was afraid and I was confused and I couldn’t trust anyone, even myself … sometimes I wonder again – is it also real?”

This is the question that animates everything that follows: it is the story that has been told real; It is the life that is really experiencing what he wants; It is the relationship that suspects that the optometrist husband, Fred (Matthew Macfadyen), is having a figuration of his imagination; The mystery that he thinks he simply discovered the projection of a woman bored to death for the same thing he thought he wanted?

“I was not in a good place when we met,” he tells Dave (Gael Garcia Bernal), a colleague teacher at the local high school. “It was nothing serious, only a small town, trapped, not going anywhere.”

Fred saved her, she says, she put her in a safety box. “And it was good for me, the box. I needed it, he kept me together.”