Why Nicole Kidman deserves a special round of applause | Deborah Orr
Female actors are still not taken as seriously as their male co-stars. The Australian star of The Killing of a Sacred Deer shows just how wrong that is
The new film The Killing of a Sacred Deer is not for the faint-hearted or indeed the faint-prone. Its title refers to the Greek mythical animal owned by Artemis and killed in error by Agamemnon, who then has to sacrifice a member of his own family to appease the goddess.
In the film, cardiac surgeon Steven Murphy is our contemporary Agamemnon, which makes Nicole Kidman’s character, Anna, Clytemnestra. The brutality, however, is ancient. It is an intense and challenging film. I left the cinema slightly numb with shock.
