Justin Chang
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1,638 appearances
51 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now in Silent Friend, she gives us three distinct characters, all outsiders in one way or another, and all of whom use science to push beyond what can be strictly observed.
As wonderful as her three human leads are, especially Leung, who's as mesmerizing as ever in his first big European production, the filmmaker encourages us to consider a plant's point of view.
She sometimes frames the actors from high above, as if the camera were perched on a branch over their heads.
In one scene, Greta enjoys a cigarette break under the ginkgo biloba tree, and we see close-ups of a leaf withering on contact with the smoke.
It takes patience to see things from this perspective, to appreciate the vulnerability and beauty of a germinating seed, a budding flower, or a head of broccoli.
If you let it, Silent Friend will gently open your eyes to that beauty.
There have been countless coming-of-age movies about the summer that changed everything, a season marked by a move to a new town, a fleeting but memorable romance, or a shattering crisis.
It's not easy to make a film in this vein that feels fresh or personal, but the Canadian writer-director Sophie Romvari has somehow done both with her exquisite, achingly sad debut feature, Blue Heron.
It's based on events from her own life, which she previously explored in her 2020 documentary short, Still Processing.
That title could just as well have applied to Blue Heron, in which she peers back into her past and tries to make sense of what she finds.
Most of the story takes place over one summer in the late 1990s.
Eight-year-old Sasha, played by Elul Guven, has just moved with her Hungarian immigrant parents and three older brothers to a small town on Vancouver Island.
Life here is idyllic in many ways.
The island is beautiful and peaceful, and Sasha enjoys spending time outdoors with her family and making new friends.
But a cloud hovers over everything and seems to darken as the summer goes on.
Sasha's oldest brother, Jeremy, played by Edik Bedos, isn't adjusting well to the move, to put it mildly.
He's peevish with his parents and siblings, and acts out in ways that range from annoying to dangerous.
He climbs up on the roof.
He wanders off without telling anyone.
He shoplifts and gets arrested.
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