"Using only five roles, four actors, and the City of Montreal, So Faraway and Blue builds a web of delicate, fragile relationships, each of which might or might not stand up to the first breath of wind.

Not that there is much wind on the hot, sticky August days during which the film is set. The characters, each living their own solipsistic existence, are portrayed in grainy black and white wandering across the steaming, oily tarmac and crisp, dry verges of the suburbs as cicadas drown out any possibility of logical thought.

Julie, our narrator and guide, is a young woman whose father left her when she was young and whose mother recently threw her out of the house because she reminded her too much of him. Now living in the bottom of an empty swimming pool, she follows strangers around on her bicycle.

On this particular day, the stranger she meets is Hank, a man about her father's age, who has traveled from Alberta to get closure from Véronique, the woman he deserted on a Mexican beach. As they join forces to search for her, Julie's attempts to connect with Hank fail as he is lost in his own world and she does not seem have the subtlety to draw him out of it. This burgeoning relationship is interwoven with Véronique, who has returned to Montreal to make a fresh start, and Gus, a friend who has fallen in unrequited love with her, too fast and too deep." (Guy Harling, McGill Daily)

Also screening is a collection of Roy Cross's short films. Roy Cross will be in attendance for all screenings.

Cross will also be teaching a workshop at FAVA: Collision and Fusion, on digital intermediates and Super 16 -> 35mm blowups. The workshop is on Sat, May 12 @ 2pm; $55 for members, $65 for non-members. For more info, contact FAVA at info@fava.ca or 429.1671.