Blue Heron
About this episode
The episode discusses the film Blue Heron, directed by Sophy Romvari, which explores a family's struggle with mental illness and the artistic process of confronting painful memories.
A Canadian family must cope with the mental illness of the eldest son. When an artist attempts to illuminate painful memories, “less is more” is the general rule—one that is perhaps not followed frequently enough. Canadian director Sophy Romvari, after making award winning short films for ten years, adheres to that rule in her autobiographical first feature Blue Heron. Romvari was the youngest child in a family of four that moved from Hungary to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in 1989. The family in Blue Heron is also of Hungarian origin. Although this element doesn’t seem crucial to the story, she evidently…
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