'Blue Heron' Review: Sophy Romvari's Astonishing Feature Debut Is a Riveting Reflection on Memory and Regret
A film whose quietly flooring opening frames of a vast landscape becoming home to a compassionate story of a Hungarian-Canadian family navigating an uncertain world together already signal it as a major work, writer/director Sophy Romvari's intimate and incisive "Blue Heron" only grows even greater from there. This is because the stunningly confident feature debut, while deeply personal in a way Romvari has been in her equally spectacular shorts, is one that expands outward in time just as it draws us closer in emotion. It's a film you can't shake your way free of once it has you . . .