The remaining stain that love leaves behind after a relationship fractures isn’t always so easily removed. Even years after you thought you had scrubbed it clean, it may show itself to be hiding just under the surface. Jim and Amanda in “Blue Jay” find that the feelings they once shared haven’t necessarily been muted by time.
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Starring Mark Duplass (who also wrote the script) and Sarah Paulson and directed by Alex Lehmann, the film follows high school sweethearts who run into each other in their hometown twenty years later and spend the day going down memory lane. Here’s the official synopsis:
Former high school sweethearts Jim (Mark Duplass) and Amanda (Sarah Paulson) have been out of touch for more than 20 years — but by sheer coincidence, they run into each other at a grocery store back in their alpine hometown of Crestline, California. Jim’s mother has died and he’s here to put her house on the market. Amanda is visiting her pregnant sister. They get to talking, first over coffee, then over beer and jellybeans. Before they know it they’re at Jim’s mother’s house, where everything sends them spiraling back into the past. Jim and Amanda’s lives have taken different directions, yet here they are, reconnecting like nothing has changed.
Alex Lehmann’s feature debut is a tender, wise chamber drama about finding yourself adrift in mid-life, longing for something essential that you fear has been lost.
“Blue Jay” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in select cities on October 7th, followed by release on VOD platforms on October 11th.
