Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, where a solar eclipse induces town inhabitants (a lonely housewife, a frustrated schoolteacher, and a struggling filmmaker) to search for solace and understanding in themselves and one another.
Cinematography
Golden-hour suburbia shot like a memory you're not sure you had.
Acting
Edie Falco before Tony Soprano — luminous, heartbreaking, stuck.
Direction
Mendelsohn's Sundance winner: one perfect day, quietly collapsing.
Director
Eric Mendelsohn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eric Mendelsohn won the Sundance Director's Award for this, his first feature — then didn't make another film for 15 years, which feels weirdly appropriate to the movie's themes of stalled dreams.
Shot in Mendelsohn's actual Long Island hometown, the film captures a specific pre-9/11, pre-internet suburban stasis that now feels like archaeological documentation of a lost America.
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