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Shiva Baby Movie Review Shiva Baby review: A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age story
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Danielle (Rachel Sennott) is a college student who has been lying to her parents about her academic struggles. On top of that, she has a sugar daddy named Max (Danny Deferrari), whom she also keeps secret. Danielle goes to a family shiva, a week-long mourning period in Judaism. At the shiva, Danielle is surrounded by judgmental family and friends, who are constantly questioning her about her appearance and lack of post-grad plans.
Things get more troublesome for Danielle when she not only runs into her confident ex-girlfriend Maya (Molly Gordon), who is being applauded by everyone for getting into law school, but Max, who is there with his wife Kim (Dianna Agron) and their child. As the day goes on, Danielle struggles to keep control of her insecurities, but soon learns that the ones who have been constantly questioning her have secrets of their own.
How Shiva Baby captures the anxieties of being a young woman
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A shiva, the ritual gathering that follows a Jewish funeral, is potentially as good a cinematic device for uniting disparate and dysfunctional friends and family as the wedding, birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas events that have driven countless movie comedies.
Unfortunately, writer-director Emma Seligman’s “Shiva Baby,” despite its thematic acuity, loopy vitality and committed acting, doesn’t add up to enough in its too-brief 72 minutes (plus end credits) to warrant all the cross-wired mayhem that gets us over the movie’s dubious finish line.
Based on Seligman’s 2018 eight-minute short, the film finds floundering college senior and secret sex worker Danielle (Rachel Sennott) unexpectedly running into her sugar daddy, Max (Danny Deferrari), at a shiva being held in the New York City-area home (shot in Queens) of her aunt Sheila (Cilda Shaur). It’s awkward with a capital A, especially since the thirtyish Max is there with his blonde shiksa wife (Diann
Shiva Baby
Writer-director Emma Seligman s debut film takes on the anxiety and awkwardness involved in Jewish family gatherings. Danielle (Rachel Sennott) rushes to meet her parents and various relatives at a family shiva. While being interrogated about her future (or lack thereof), she runs into her successful ex-girlfriend, Maya. Also at the gathering is Danielle s sugardaddy, his accomplished wife and their new baby. The comedy-drama will be out on VOD and in select theaters on Friday, April 2.
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