‘Holland’ Director Mimi Cave on Working With Nicole Kidman and Keeping Audiences Guessing: ‘Hopefully, You Don’t Know Who to Believe’

Holland review – twisty Nicole Kidman thriller is a disappointing mess

SXSW film festival: Fresh director Mimi Cave delivers an underwhelming follow-up that can’t make the most of its hard-working leading starNicole Kidman is, in general, providing a public service with her seemingly inexhaustible energy. She’s been working consistently with female directors – 19 in the last eight years – while also attempting to rescue the tight domestic thrillers of yore and consistently probing the gap between women’s placid pub…

‘Holland’ Review: Nicole Kidman Leads Mimi Cave’s Manic Midwestern Thriller

As Nicole Kidman continues her mission to champion female directors, her latest role in writer-director Mimi Cave’s Holland is proof positive of that very talent. The Midwestern mystery stars the Oscar-winning actress as Nancy Vandergroot, a home economics teacher who feels so perfectly safe with her husband Fred (Matthew Macfadyen) and their son Harry (Jude Hill) in the picturesque Dutch-themed town of Holland, Michigan, that she idly wonders…

Nicole Kidman Is Down to Check into ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘Would Do Anything’ Mike White Writes

Nicole Kidman touched down in Austin, Texas for the premiere of Mimi Cave’s sophomore feature “Holland,” co-starring Matthew Macfadyen and Gael García Bernal, at SXSW. The film follows Kidman as a paranoid teacher who suspects her husband (Macfadyen) of having an affair. She soon enlists her co-worker (Bernal) to help her discover the reality of what’s going on in her perfect suburban life. We caught up with the Oscar-winning actor, who also pro…

‘Holland’ Director Mimi Cave on Working With Nicole Kidman and Keeping Audiences Guessing: ‘Hopefully, You Don’t Know Who to Believe’

Mimi Cave was only in post-production on her debut feature — the 2022 horror film “Fresh,” with Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones — when she was approached about directing Nicole Kidman in “Holland,” a screenplay by Andrew Sodorski that had been bouncing around the industry since it first appeared on the Black List in 2013. (Naomi […]