“The Vancouver-set Blue Heron artfully plays in two timelines, first as an intimate family drama seen through the eyes of young Sasha (Eylul Guven), Romvari’s stand-in, as she observes the growing tension between her mother (Iringó Réti) and her brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes), who seems increasingly withdrawn and isolated. Around halfway, we jump forward to the aftermath of Jeremy’s death, with an adult Sasha (now played by Amy Zimmer) working as a filmmaker and trying to piece together what happened and why. These two sections meet, in a sense, in Blue Heron’s moving and surprising climax, which recreates a core scene from Romvari’s childhood — or at least seems to, on the surface. [All shot by Maya Bankovic]“

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