2023-08-30 22:42:26
Redeemed by that unexpected gem that was Diamonds in the Rough, Adam Sandler steps aside and lets his daughter prove herself as a future comedy star in You’re not invited to my bat mitzvah! The premiere directed by Sammi Cohen that Sandler produced for Netflix is about an initiation, in which the teenager Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler) prepares to become an adult through the Jewish ritual of bat mitzvah.
Moses’ creed is reduced to a few words and playful symbols in this seamless celebration of American consumer life, emphasized by the eager party spirit that surrounds the Friedmans.
One would truly say the Sandlers, since the leading clan is almost the same as the actor: he plays the father and his daughters Sunny and Sadie are his daughters in the film, while his wife Jackie has a secondary role (Idina Menzel is the one who plays Sandler’s wife in fiction). This component gives you an expectation of reality show to the film, which luckily does not succumb to the mere reflection of a famous family.
Between home and school You’re not invited to my bat mitzvah! it exhibits the hectic days that precede the ceremony. Stacy tries on dresses, takes rabbinic classes from the bizarre Rebecca (Sarah Sherman), and speculates about bringing some pop star to her bat mitzvah perhaps being aware that she herself is an anonymous princess on the way to becoming an icon: “I’m not popular, I’m not a failure, I don’t know what I am,” she says. Her father is both an adult authority and a guru of the show, and perhaps that is the double initiation (moral and audiovisual) that fits every adolescent today.
And it is that rarely have we seen so many crowded screens: televisions, cell phones, monitors are part of the socialization of Stacy and her friends, and they themselves are editors and actresses of their videos; movie sequences like Dreams of liberty they are fragments lost in the pixelated alluvium. The appearance of a cinema accompanied by a Sandler dressed in a nightgown is significant, a scene that makes explicit the abysmal gap between the analogue comedian and his daughter. streamer.
Perhaps for all this the love triangle between Stacy, her friend Lydia Rodriguez Katz (Samantha Lorraine) and the Jewish heartthrob Andy Goldfarb (Dylan Hoffman) who carries out the plot ends up being the most anecdotal of the set, a rite of past films that the protagonist must go through to become a woman. Only time will tell if Stacy’s generation can bring more than pure technological (and biological) replacement to comedy, or if humor is nothing more than an old, unalterable religion.
To watch “You’re Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!”
USA, 2023. Screenplay: Alison Peck and Fiona Rosenbloom. Directed by: Sammy Cohen. With: Sunny Sandler, Idina Menzel and Adam Sandler. Duration: 103 minutes. Rating: Suitable for ages 13+. On Netflix.
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