Nasty Baby

Freddy and Mo are together in a long, solid and staid relationship where each is fulfilled professionally and personally. They spend their time with friends, and the only thing missing in their gorgeous and spacious Brooklyn flat is a child. Freddy's best friend, Polly, also dreams of having a child. The trio decides to become loving parents, but the in vitro procedure is taking forever. What's more, the threesome's serenity (and that of the entire hip neighborhood) is disturbed by the mysterious Bishop, a mentally ill man who tries to reach out to the young and liberated residents of this NYC borough at all costs. Sebastián Silva's Nasty Baby is a subversive portrait of a seemingly open and liberal generation that abandons its ideals whenever it senses a threat to its social status. Silva balances on the edge of comedy and drama; he manages to be truly ruthless toward his characters. Silva masterfully switches from the levity of earlier incidents to a state of wild, uneasy panic. (…) By shattering genre conventions, Silva subverts traditional perspectives on modern adulthood and finds no easy answers in the process, writes An Banhin a review for IndieWire.