Blue Heron

Only movies can do this.

Sean Fennessey

so hard to understand how memory actually works -- incredible to see a movie depict that trickiness so well

David Sims

When I saw this at TIFF last year I said that it made me cry at one point. Well on this second viewing I was a weepy mess from basically beginning to end. My mind’s made up, this is a five-bagger. The shards of this very specific story can hit just about everyone. The…

Will Sloan

Simultaneously feels like I could talk about this for hours but somehow have nothing to say. I don’t know. It cut clean through my soul.

Bobby Wagner

Memory is a complicated thing, very easy to romanticize but the power Romvari wields here is her ability to acknowledge its distortions, the way memory can comfort and haunt us all at once. There’s an obvious frustration while watching, to want access to these people more,…

Joe A

95 "I wish I had a better answer." Examines an unassailable truth when faced with confronting the past: that attempting to dig up buried trauma only unearths another series of questions to add to the unresolved, and it often pours salt across the wound. This is a film…

SilentDawn

memories are merciless, like they’re trying to tell us something and refusing to finish the sentence.

artisticvision

Clear-eyed about both the usefulness and limitations of art as a strategy for processing trauma and interrogating the past. Maybe it is possible to understand things better, and even communicate with the child version of yourself that’s still inside you, but the past is the…

Will Sloan

both times I've seen this there's a single shot that makes me cry as if on command. remarkable stuff

fran hoepfner