In Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby, a sugar baby bumps into her sugar daddy and ex-girlfriend while sitting shiva — a Jewish wake — with her parents. Based on writer-director Seligman's 2018 short of the same name, the film is graced with a towering lead performance from Rachel Sennott as Danielle, the early twenty-something, almost-graduated college student on the precipice of adulthood. The result, Monica Castillo writes at RogerEbert.com, “is a painfully funny comedy that feels both universally relatable in its depiction of awkward family dynamics and very specific to Danielle’s experience of watching her sex life collide with her religious community.” Which begs a two-part question: what is it that Shiva Baby captures so well about Jewishness? And what about that cultural specificity makes the film so universally relatable? Raised in a Reform Ashkenazi Jewish community in Toronto, Seligman draws from her own milieu. Over at Vogue, Jocelyn Silver praises her observational skills,...
- 4/29/2021
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