Josephine Decker directs this 2022 American drama about grief arriving at the exact same moment as first love, told through the eyes of a teenage musician who is losing her footing in both.
What is The Sky Is Everywhere about?
Lennie is a gifted young musician still absorbing the death of her older sister when two very different relationships pull at her at once: a new boy who has just arrived at her school, and her sister's boyfriend, who is working through the same loss from the other side of it. Neither pull cancels the other out, and the film does not rush Lennie toward a clean choice between them. Instead it follows her clarinet playing, her sprawling extended family, and the almost overgrown intensity of her imagination as the frame through which grief, jealousy, and attraction all get processed at once. Based on Jandy Nelson's novel, the story treats a teenager's inner life as something worth taking seriously rather than as a lesser version of adult feeling.
About the cast
Grace Kaufman stars as Lennie, with Jacques Colimon, Pico Alexander, and Cherry Jones among the family and school circle around her. Jason Segel, Ji-young Yoo, Havana Rose Liu, and Julia Schlaepfer round out the supporting ensemble that fills in Lennie's household and community.
Context & significance
Director Josephine Decker built her reputation on formally adventurous independent films before moving toward this more mainstream young-adult adaptation, and traces of that sensibility show up in the film's willingness to let Lennie's imagination visibly bleed into how scenes are shot. Music and grief run through the story together rather than as separate threads, with Lennie's clarinet playing standing in for feelings she otherwise struggles to name. The film sits at the overlap of drama, music, and romance, closer in tone to a coming-of-age character study than to a conventional teen romance.
Watching The Sky Is Everywhere on Ktime
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