When Water Became Blue

Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman’s obsession with a painter — and a river.

A woman is on an artists’ retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away from her partner and her daughter to write. There she encounters a painter who spends his days with his easel set up on the shore trying to capture the blue of the water. They are drawn to each other, and their desire builds, through conversations about art and the colour blue, into a passionate...