Red Sparrow (2018) is Francis Lawrence’s spy movie, with Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, a Bolshoi ballerina turned Russian intelligence recruit whose first assignment is Joel Edgerton’s CIA officer, Nate Nash.
I’ll be straight with you: this is not a sexy scene, it’s a power struggle staged with a naked woman at the center of it, and the reason it’s on this list is that she wins. What happens in the classroom At the state school, Matron (Charlotte Rampling) teaches recruits that their bodies belong to
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In a film where every kiss is tradecraft and every bedroom has a microphone in it, the one scene that feels like two people actually wanting each other is the one worth your time. What happens in Red Sparrow Dominika Egorova was a Bolshoi ballerina until a broken leg ended her career. Her uncle, a
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Their love scene is the one moment in a film full of tradecraft and hidden microphones that feels like two people actually wanting each other: dark, amber, unhurried and worth every second. The State School classroom scene is not a sexy one: her instructor orders her to undress in front of the class as a punishment, and we cover it plainly as the coercion it is, and as the moment Dominika refuses to be broken.