
Blue Heron
Synopsis
Canada, late 1990s. When a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, their internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family’s oldest child.
Editorial
Among the most inventive, moving debuts of the 2020s, this unpredictable film replays and tries to make sense of an unstable past. Hopscotching through childhood memories, Sophy Romvari colors in her characters with incredible empathy, and experiments in beautiful ways with the technology of cinema.
