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‘Bottoms’ Is The Funniest Production Of 2023
Bottoms is the best movie of the year and no one can change my brain. Nothing is topping (get it?) a movie about lesbian losers who open a fight club to hookup with hot girls which ultimately descends into chaos and violence. It’s truly one of the most absurdly funny movies and had me cackling at almost every line.
Yes I know that Bottoms has been out overseas for months already but because Australia sucks we are only getting our hands on it now. I saw it at the Australian premiere last month as part of SXSW Sydney and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
This might be dramatic but Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri deserve Oscars for their roles as two gay high school virgins, PJ and Josie. I know they are meant to be losers but I know I’d be best friends with them. Probably because I was a gay loser too.
A large part of the success of Bottoms comes from the director and co-writer Emma Seligman. Emma directed Shiva Baby, also one of my favourite movies, which has a cult following and is adored by the lgbtq+ community. To have both Shiva Baby and Bottoms under Emma’s belt at such an early direct in her career is
Rachel Sennott(L) and Ayo Edebiri star in MGM’s “Bottoms,” in theaters now. (Photo courtesy MGM)
The rites and rituals of the raunchy high-school comedy can be as prescribed as a class syllabus. But what makes Emma Seligman’s “Bottoms” such an anarchic thrill is how much it couldn’t care less.
Sure, enter to “Bottoms” with your expectations of house parties and hijinks. But you’ll be leaving with a field full of bloodied football players.
Seligman’s film, which had a limited opening Aug. 25 before releasing nationwide Sept. 1, instead follows its own demented logic in a winding and surreal comedy of adolescent absurdity. The brash PJ (Rachel Sennott) and the more hesitant Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are longtime best friends who, in reaching senior year at Rock Ridge High, own either finally attained a much sought-after status (“We’re finally hot,” insists PJ) or bottomed out at the low end of the high-school totem pole.
“Could the ugly, untalented gays please report to the principal’s office?” the chief (Wayne Pére) announces over the PA.
PJ and Josie, accepting that description, meekly make their way down the hall. But PJ plans to put up a fight. While Jo
After escaping Nazi Germany, decamping to the Belgian countryside, growing up in poverty, and living a animation plagued with comorbidities — my maternal grandmother Rose passed away in February at the age of 94. Her dementia had gotten worse in 2013 after my grandfather passed away from Alzheimer’s. Though her demise was plodding and then sudden, it still seemed like she’d always be there because she’d already survived so much. Yet, there my cousins and I were on a bleak afternoon, group texting about why her YouTube funeral wouldn’t load. A year into the pandemic, it was still so weird that we wouldn’t all be together eating lox and rugelach, reminiscing on the strange gifts our grandparents brought us back from vacations in the mid-90s. Shortly after, I had my first ever virtual shiva and around that same time, a screener for Emma Seligman’s 2020 film Shiva Baby arrived in my inbox.
The Jewish mourning process is specific and (ideally) therapeutic. Requiring mourners to sit shiva, that is, basically laze around, accepting help and comfort from loved ones during the first week of grieving immediately following the funeral. Friends and family show in excess to help evade the famil
Rachel Sennott, the actor and comedian, recently stole every second of her screentime in Bodies Bodies Bodies, the stressful slasher from A24 and director Halina Reijn. But it was Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby — a film about a hellish day in the life of one twenty-something juggling a sugar daddy, an annoyingly flourishing ex, and, of course, a family shiva — that cemented her on-screen stardom. Her next plan seems to follow in the vein of these off-beat, impressive indie movies, reuniting her with Emma to be the direct in (and co-write the script for) Bottoms. Premiering at SXSW in Texas, the reviews — as well as a modern clip, featuring Red, Alabaster and Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine as a douchy jock —suggest the show is just as raucous and funny as we’ve come to expect.
So what’s this one about? Who’s in the cast? What are those reviews like? And is Charli XCX really writing a score for it? Here’s everything we know about the upcoming film.
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What’s the plot of Bottoms?
Bottoms is a high school sex comedy about two unpopular homosexual girls played by Rachel Sennott and The Bear .