MOVIE · 2004

Birth

DramaFantasyMysteryRomanceThriller100 min

Ten years after her husband Sean died, Anna is finally preparing to marry again when a 10-year-old boy appears at her engagement party and insists he is Sean reincarnated. Nicole Kidman is Anna, pulled back into grief and doubt as the child’s intimate knowledge of her marriage begins to unsettle everyone around her. Cameron Bright’s Sean is calm, insistent, and increasingly difficult to dismiss, while Danny Huston’s Joseph watches Anna’s future with him start to wobble. Jonathan Glazer’s film keeps the focus on mourning, belief, and the strange intimacy between a grown woman and a boy who claims to know her best.