“Baby Ruby,” which held its world premiere at TIFF, is not your mother’s movie about being a new mom. Or maybe it is. In the film, Noémie Merlant (“Portait of a Lady on Fire”) plays Jo, an influencer who plans on seamlessly incorporating her new baby into her brand, until the experience isn’t exactly all it’s chalked up to be. As Jo struggles with her postpartum recovery, she grows alienated from the people around her: the other new mothers in her circle, her helpless husband (Kit Harington, a long way from “Game of Thrones”) and most disturbingly, Baby Ruby herself, who acts out only when she’s alone with Jo.
How ‘Baby Ruby’ Star Kit Harington Captured the ‘Emotionally Traumatic Experience’ of New Parenthood (Video)
Toronto 2022: Harington and Noémie Merlant play parents adjusting to the shock of caring for a newborn in playwright Bess Wohl’s feature debut