Blue Heron
A singular coming-of-age story, this revelatory feature debut by Sophy Romvari heralds the arrival of a major new cinematic voice. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her Hungarian Canadian family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of her eldest brother, Jeremy (Edik Beddoes). At wit’s end, the parents are presented with a shattering choice. Audaciously layering the past and the present until they converge in a moment of devastating emotional clarity, Blue Heron evokes the languid haze of a childhood summer and the hidden tensions rippling underneath.
Criterion Premieres is a selection of new theatrical films presented on Blu-ray and DVD, released in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Sophy Romvari, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Still Processing (2020), a short film by Romvari
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Sophy Romvari, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Still Processing (2020), a short film by Romvari
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
Cast
- Eylul Guven
- Young Sasha
- Iringó Réti
- Mother
- Ádám Tompa
- Father
- Edik Beddoes
- Jeremy
- Amy Zimmer
- Adult Sasha
Credits
- Director
- Sophy Romvari
- Writer
- Sophy Romvari
- Cinematographer
- Maya Bankovic
- Editor
- Kurt Walker
- Production designer
- Victoria Furuya
- Costume designer
- Maria Katarina
- Music supervisor
- Jody Colero
- Music supervisor
- Amanda Clemens
- Supervising sound editor
- Péter Benjámin Lukács
- Postproduction supervisor
- Éva Haraszin
- Producer
- Ryan Bobkin
- Producer
- Gábor Osváth
- Producer
- Sara Wylie
- Producer
- Sophy Romvari
- Executive producer
- Riel Roch-Decter
- Executive producer
- Lauren Melinda
- Executive producer
- Neil Champagne
- Executive producer
- Veronica Diaferia
- Executive producer
- Sara Eolin
- Executive producer
- Jasmin Karibzhanova
- Executive producer
- Sam Sutcliffe
Trailer for Blue Heron
