Memory is slippery and trauma can create a false impression of what really happened. It’s a bold and moving message from a powerful film.

Occasionally, a talent arrives fully formed, and the Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari is one such phenomenon. Already effortlessly fluent in the language of cinema, she is confident enough to have made a feature debut that is entirely her own.

...Blue Heron juggles painful memoir and self-reflexive film-making with remarkable assurance.

Even with its deliberate ambiguity, Blue Heron successfully finds its own intense voice, heightened by the strong documentary feel present in every single gesture.