Danielle has a sugar daddy, Max (Danny Deferrari), and much to her horror and surprise, he turns up at the shiva too. What they don’t know is that she’s started to dabble in sex work.
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The house is full of people who have known her forever - they know whom she went to prom with and how often she goes to synagogue. The moment Danielle walks in the door, hands reach out to pat her cheeks, to tug at her waist, to measure how much weight she’s lost since the last time they saw her. Danielle doesn’t know who’s dead, but everyone else knows her. Her parents, Debbie and Joel (Polly Draper and Fred Melamed), have asked her to turn up at a post-funeral gathering for a relation she barely remembers, and despite the fact that she’s just a few days from graduating college, she’s being pretty adolescent about it: reluctant but present, grouchy and submissive and jumpy.
The baby is beside himself! The baby will not be calmed! The sound operates like the cannon in the “1812 Overture”: Nothing makes you jump like the real thing.īy the time Danielle (Rachel Sennott) grapples with that bawling infant, she’s already been on edge for ages. It’s a symphony in the key of anxiety - and as it crescendos, Seligman adds the screaming child.
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At this point, the movie has already frayed our nerves: Ariel Marx’s score jumps and screeches like a horror soundtrack our hackles rise at each increasingly awkward situation and embarrassing confrontation. The movie climaxes when the titular “baby” - an NYU student with a sideline in sugar-babying - starts getting screamed at by a real baby. All that raw need! How can we ignore it? Emma Seligman uses that sound like an air-raid siren in her debut feature, Shiva Baby, a perfectly engineered and performed piece of comic cringe. The more we hear it, the more anxious we get. There’s something about a baby’s cry that triggers our primal brains - it’s un-tune-outable, it saw-blades around in our cortex, it drags at our attention.
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