Sorry, Baby (2025)

When we experience a traumatic tragedy, we often can’t fathom how we’re going to respond to it. Some reactions may follow expected patterns. But others may come across as wholly unpredictable, in large part because we don’t quite know what to make of them ourselves. That can become considerably more complicated when we don’t even know how to speak about them, to find the words to sufficiently express our feelings. And, when you combine all of these elements, you have the basis for the quandary faced by unnerved protagonist Agnes Ward (actor-writer-director Eva Victor in her debut feature). The…

CinemaSerf

6.0

Aug 31, 2025

There is something especially individual about the lead characterisation here, and even though Eve Victor delivers strongly, I just didn’t really engage with it. We conclude fairly swiftly that her “Agnes” has suffered some trauma in her life and that now, in her late twenties, she has taken up a professorial job in a small rural community where she seems content to live en seul. Except, that is, until her friend “Lydia” (Naomie Ackie) comes to visit. She and her new girlfriend are expecting a baby and though joyous of the news, it seems to awaken in “Agnes” an appreciation of a hitherto subdu…

For a first feature film, Sorry, Baby is truly impressive. Eva Victor takes on the triple threat of writing, directing, and starring, and she pulls it off with a creative approach that actually works. This is a story about recovery from trauma, but Victor resists the conventional playbook. Instead of solemnity or melodrama, she gives us something lighter, wry, even funny, without ever minimizing what her character Agnes has endured. The film follows Agnes, a reclusive college literature professor, as she navigates life after something terrible has happened. Victor doesn't make trauma the sp…