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Sophy Romvari on BLUE HERON, Time Travel as Editing, and the Power of the Zoom

The Canadian writer-director on Altman, the journal she kept on set, and the Minnelli musical lurking in her future.

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Gabriel Frieberg
May 02, 2026
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Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron is a quiet stunner — a personal, time-bending feature that blends fact and fiction, past and present, and arrives as part of a remarkable wave of personal Canadian cinema. …

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