SHIVA BABY

In the organizer's words:

"Lichtspiele Kalk" show in the film series "Cinemania Kalk"...

SHIVA BABY

Director: Emma Seligman
USA 2020 | 77 min. | DCP | not rated for minors
English original version with German subtitles

At a Jewish funeral service, a young woman is confronted with the inadequacies of her professionally and privately disordered life: with a childhood friend with whom she has an unresolved affair, with a married man with whom she sleeps for money.

"As writer, Seligman studs her intricately constructed screenplay with hilarious absurdity and scalpel-sharp one-liners; as director, she frames the mayhem expertly, with one eye always on the bigger picture. The result is an exhilarating and compassionate film about love, death, loneliness - and the life-affirming importance of dessert." Lisa Mullen, Sight & Sound (2021)

"At the end of SHIVA BABY, you feel exactly how the main character looks at this point: deranged and completely exhausted. And yet you want to watch the movie again right away. The creative ideas on the visual and sound level are too numerous to really take in every one of the many wonderful details the first time you watch it. The film is a masterpiece in terms of dialog and acting, wordplay and visual ideas, and it is bursting with absurd dialog and bizarre characters." Katharina Zeckau, Filmdienst

Price information:

Tickets at the Box Office or in advance via www.lichtspiele-kalk.de ... Reservation by telephone on 0221 29 49 49 79 ... Admission € 9.00 // reduced € 8.00 (students, apprentices, school / FSJ / people under 25 / guild pass) // Cologne Pass € 7.00