‘Sorry, Baby’ Review: With Eva Victor’s Poignant Dramedy A Star Is Born And So Is A Born Filmmaker – Sundance Film Festival

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Whatever you think about the Sundance Film Festival, there is a special kind of excitement when a movie from a first time filmmaker premieres and you just know you are discovering and witnessing the real deal.

Welcome to the “real deal” Sundance circa 2025, as tonight comedian and actress Eva Victor‘s writing and directing feature debut, Sorry, Baby in which she also stars premiered in the U.S.

Dramatic Competition and provided one of the assured and heartfelt films not only of this festival, but that I have seen in a very long time.

Victor, who has appeared on shows like Billions, as well as being a standup comic proves that in her first attempt to write a movie (and eventually come to believe she could also direct it and herself in the starring role) she has a true talent as a storyteller, avoiding every pitfall, and remarkably keeping the tone of a film, its leading character the victim of a sexual assault, by showing us in non-linear fashion the toll it took for years after, as well as what led up to it.