Blue Heron
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“Have you ever heard about a family like this?”
Overview
Fresh from sold-out sessions at MIFF, Sophie Romvari's debut Blue Heron won First Feature Award upon its premiere at Locarno and was crowned Best Canadian Discovery at TIFF. Filmmaker Sasha (Amy Zimmer) sifts through old home videos, trying to find a cohesive thread in her childhood. Growing up in a large and chaotic Hungarian immigrant family on Vancouver island, eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) watches with concern as her eldest brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) spirals out of control.
”One of the best films of the year“
”If it comes to a theatre near you, don't miss it“
”An announcement of a major talent“
Why You Should See This Film
Poignant and affecting, Blue Heron announces Romvari as a major new talent: the writer-director blends autobiography with daring formalism to create a rich yet hazy portrait of childhood, one in which the mundane details are as tactile as life-altering events. The home-movie camera here is more than an aesthetic choice, behaving as a kind of dowsing rod that's always searching for answers just beyond the frame, rewinding through the past to try and make sense of the present.
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