Shiva Baby — a caustic, claustrophobic study of family and sexuality
Shiva Baby Starring Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon, Polly Draper, Danny Deferrari, Fred Melamed, Dianna Agron In cinemas and on-line A shiva is a Jewish wake, and — in the New York community shown here — an occasion for people to size each other up, gossip and show off their financial success. In Shiva Baby — a real time tale of a dreadful shiva — twenty-something Danielle, recently graduated from university, with no life plans, encounters exactly the people she does not want to see. First, her ex-girlfriend for whom she has mixed feelings. Then, the smug, older man with whom she has...
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