Violet and Stella spend idyllic summers at camp and the beach. As time passes, personalities and bodies evolve in this thoughtful and elegiac indie drama about the everlasting bond of female friendship. Following the girls’ formative years from ages 9 through 13, we observe intimate details of their lives together and apart on vacations in New England and at home in California. At times, they struggle with body image, peer pressure, social awkwardness, and parental bonds. Yet at the end of the day, the girls have each other to lean on.
Acting
Child actors with zero performative precociousness.
Direction
Sophia Silver lets moments breathe without explaining them.
Cinematography
New England summers you can practically smell.
Director
Sophia Silver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2020s indie cinema (C'mon C'mon, The Whale) that treats childhood interiority with radical seriousness.
Silver cast non-actors and shot chronologically over two years, so the girls' physical changes are documented in real time.
US
