After her mother's death sixteen-year-old Sophie Jones is trying everything she can to feel something again and make it through high school.... (Full plot summary below)
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After her mother's death sixteen-year-old Sophie Jones is trying everything she can to feel something again and make it through high school.
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| The PlaylistLena WilsonIn the overstuffed indie coming-of-age subgenre, Sophie Jones makes an unassuming, honest contribution. Which is exactly what it needed to do to stand out among the endless pomp and quirk. |
| VarietyCourtney HowardThe cinematic catharsis the Barrs and company have carefully crafted stands as a fully realized portrait of grief that’s universal in its texture. By focusing on living with the specter of grief and the discovery of its blessings, the filmmakers highlight the human struggle, breaking through to the gutting truth of the matter. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt would be nice if there were more movies like this, but few have the talent to make them this well — to take a human scale story and make it feel, not bigger than life, but as grand-scale as life actually is. |
| RogerEbert.comRoxana HadadiNearly every scene in Sophie Jones is either meditative or combative in some way, and Barr nails the flickering, shifting, visceral emotions of adolescence. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandDirector Barr’s intimate filmmaking finds the space to cover a multitude of moments in Sophie’s life that add up to something profound, from the mundane sequences that see her fully engaging with her grief to brief moments of respite. |
| Austin ChronicleJenny NulfThere are echoes of Greta Gerwig and Dunham, and Barr’s voice never fully comes through in her homage. Instead, Sophie Jones feels like bites from these auteurs Barr so clearly admires, with brief blips that feel genuinely her own. |
| The Film StageMichael FrankBecause of the personal subject matter, Jessie Barr’s feature directing debut contains a multitude of sensitivity and care. A tenderness washes over the entire film, and even as Sophie makes unassured decisions, you want to support her. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe Barr cousins give us a film of novel scenes, comical moments of sexual experimentation which have a few laughs and a little pathos. |
