But instead of plying, pulling and pushing, Cave seems distracted by trying to make her colorful directorial vision align with Andrew Sodroski’s pallid script, with Kidman left to pull out inspired bits of pastry-driven character work where she can.

Nicole Kidman hasn't had many career regrets, but one movie will live long in her mind as a misstep in her glittering professional life.

Despite its floral wallpapers and gestures towards kitsch, director Mimi Cave’s follow-up to the cannibal horror ‘Fresh’ – which also stars Matthew Macfadyen and Gael García Bernal – is never more tha