On a summer break from college, Ivy, a young epileptic woman, struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.
Acting
Zoe Kazan's face does what scripts fear to write.
Cinematography
Digital murk that somehow glows — Brooklyn as memory.
Direction
Gray trusts silence more than most trust dialogue.
Director
Bradley Rust Gray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot with a skeleton crew over two weeks in Gray and Kazan's actual Brooklyn neighborhood.
The title's 'exploding' refers not to destruction but to the pressure of everything held inside — the film's entire emotional architecture.
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