Blue Heron

Blue Heron is largely the story of its maker, Sophy Romvari, or of her young life, as seen from a couple of decades on. How much of it is true? There’s a disclaimer up front about memory and its unreliability, so possibly not all of it. And in any case Romvari takes a couple of conceptual leaps towards the end of her debut feature that lift it into a different realm altogether – two different realms, in fact. But for the most part this is the story of a family of six from Hungary who arrive in 1990s Canada and set about assimilating – they try to speak only in English at home, … Read more