Film critic at From the Front Row, staff writer for In Review Online. Member - SEFCA, NCFCA, GALECA, OFCS.
Watching Sophy Romvari’s barn-burning debut feature, Blue Heron, can be a disorienting experience. It often feels like we’re watching someone else’s memories unfold, missing key context that could make it all click. But then somewhere along the way it all falls into place – that’s the whole point.
Blue Heron is, above all else, a treatise on memory; a hazy tour through inchoate recollections of childhood about a documentary filmmaker attempting to make sense of a family tragedy through her…