No new filmmaker has a more fitting name than Eva Victor, writer-director-star of the seriocomic Sundance hit “Sorry, Baby.”
The actor and online comedian’s first feature attracted Lucas Hedges and Naomi Ackie as co-stars, “Moonlight” helmer Barry Jenkins as a producer and A24 as its distributor in an $8 million-range worldwide rights deal. When you add in Sundance’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, an 88/100 Metacritic score and a May 22 closing night slot in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section, it all points to a promising June 27 limited/July 18 nationwide theatrical rollout.
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