Film review: Shiva Baby
Film review: Shiva Baby (2020) Shiva Baby demonstrates the continuing power and richness of the classic theater trope of a dinner party gone bad. The film is a fast paced comedy that concentrates on family dynamics, inter-generational conflict, sexual complexities, and social repression. But not everyone gathered for the shiva in Shiva Baby understands the anguish and panic of the fewer central characters. They are unaware of the crises all around them, like the unobservant peasants in Peter Bruegel’s “The Fall of Icarus,” or Americans who don’t vote. While some family members are working the