![]() ![]() ![]() The film shifts from one location to another seamlessly, providing a glimpse into what their relationship used to be like quite succinctly. The spaces between words and the silence, the unabashed portrayal of post-breakup awkwardness that has replaced an erstwhile affronting familiarity, make this film an extremely nuanced study of human relationships and conversations. Her expressive eyebrows, what she does with her hands are as impassioned as her long monologues on greyhounds. Paulson is one of the most fluid, effortless actresses I have seen in recent indie films. ![]() In an interview, Mark Duplass (lead actor, who also conceived the film) states that he had Sarah Paulson in mind from the beginning and most dialogues in the film was improvised and provided to Paulson only minutes before the shoot. The nostalgic narrative is a reminiscence of young love it traces a quiet reunion of two lovers who stumble quite unexpectedly into each other, twenty four years after their breakup. Blue Jay, named after the inconspicuous small town it is set in, is a 1:38 hour long postcard a rambling road whose destination is acceptance of fate. The Duplass Brothers have recently released the first of four films from their collaborative project with Netflix, and although the plot line ostentatiously sounds a wee bit ‘been-there-done-that’, it is visibly a deeply personal film. What is the saddest and most beautiful love song you’ve heard? If that song were a film, it would inarguable be Blue Jay. ![]()
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