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As Shiva Baby is released, writer and director Emma Seligman tells Zoe Whitfield about the process of making the Jewish comedy – and who she made it for
âShiva Babyâ: You donât have to be Jewish
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated April 7, 2021, 2:04 p.m.
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Rachel Sennott in Shiva Baby. Utopia
From its title on down to the rugelach, âShiva Babyâ is an instant classic in the Jewish comedy of mortification, a genre that combines hilarity, anxiety, resentment and schmaltz. Even better, itâs a groundbreaker, one of the few to be written and directed by a woman, Emma Seligman, and to center on a woman character, played by the comedian/actress Rachel Sennott (who was raised Catholic, but never mind). At just 77 minutes and largely bound to one location, the filmâs a slip of a thing, but it lacerates and celebrates its narrow turf with a microscopic eye for detail.