Director Sophy Romvari on How Memory Met Fiction on the Path to ‘Blue Heron’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
After winning the Locarno Film Festival’s Swatch First Feature Award and the Toronto International Film Festival’s Best Canadian Discovery, Sophy Romvari’s debut feature, Blue Heron, is finally in theaters. Now in limited release, expanding throughout May, Romvari’s semi-autobiographical film has already become the most acclaimed of the year.
Splicing memory with reality in a bifurcated narrative, Romvari’s debut tracks a family in crisis through the eyes of its youngest daughter, Sasha, played by both Eylul Guven and Amy Zimmer. As Jeremy (Edik Beddoes), the eldest son, grows more distant and worries his parents with erratic behavior, Sasha’s understanding of her circumstances ebbs and flows, as both an experience of past and present that Romvari presents in a profound way.
Presenting her film as part of the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival, Romvari sat down to discuss her relationship with memory, her on-set practices, and the reception to her debut.
Blue Heron is currently in select theaters from Janus Films.
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