For her second feature, “Shiva Baby” filmmaker Emma Seligman pays homage to the “nerd gets the girl” films of the 1990s.
Aug. 25, 2023, 9:12 PM UTCAfter winning audiences over with her first feature, 2020’s “Shiva Baby,” director Emma Seligman returns with another film about
“That’s where it started: wanting to see a version of myself, or myself in high school, in that [genre],” Seligman said of paying homage to the teen sex comedy. “So that meant switching the identities and letting it be as horny as possible.” While this is all written for laughs — and the punchlines land one after the other — the satiric teen world of “Bottoms” perhaps inadvertently highlights just how brutal the teenage experience can be. And while it’s not just the unrivaled degree of girl-on-girl violence on screen, the bloody noses and knockouts are a surprisingly effective part of it.
Similarly, the film’s queer antiheroes bring something unique to the genre, elevating the ‘90s cinematic nerd with deadpan humor, amoral attitudes and sapphic sensibilities. Sennott, whose most recent role was in Sam Levinson’s “The Idol,” and Edebiri, who has beenleft and right since her breakout role in “The Bear,” began collaborating while they were students at New York University.
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