The film stars Dorchester native Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott as teens who are desperate to shed their virginity before college. Critic Sean Burns says it’s heartening to see the duo “get to be as lewd and irresponsible onscreen as their straight male counterparts have been for decades.”
, with good reason. Starring Rachel Sennott as a directionless college student who moonlights as a sex worker, the svelte 77-minute indie traps her at a funeral celebration of a semi-forgotten relative alongside her parents, an ex-girlfriend and her favorite client, ratcheting up the anxiety by cramming them all into increasingly uncomfortable proximity.
It takes a little while to get on the film’s hyper-exaggerated wavelength, which wobbles between satirical surrealism and joyous obscenity, with something intriguingly darker lurking under the surface. It helps that Sennott and Edebiri are hysterical together. Anyone who watched their “” shorts on Comedy Central already knows these two have honed a hilarious dynamic, with Sennott’s frazzled chaos agent energy countered by Edebiri’s sneaky understatement.
Left to right: Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, Zamani Wilder, Summer Joy Campbell, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber and Virginia Tucker in "Bottoms."
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