Blue Heron

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

David Sims

Only movies can do this.

Sean Fennessey

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

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

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

fran hoepfner

Genuinely astonishing in a "I've never seen anything quite like this" way. There is a single shot that almost immediately reduced me to tears, and you would never in a million years guess the content of that shot unless you'd seen the movie, and if you had, you would name…

Emily St. James

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

Hate to say I struggled to connect with this. The feelings it was chasing from tonally similar films was doing its best to stand among them, but never found its own footing or style to stand above them. The second half especially just absolutely tanking any complexity I was…

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