Films and TV shows that feel like Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens
A tender deathbed conversation between a parent and child, where love, regret and unresolved grief collide in quiet, devastating whispers.
- Manchester by the Sea (2016): Quiet, devastating grief that people can't talk about, set in muted American landscapes.
- Aftersun (2022): A child's memory of a loved parent, tender and aching with things left unsaid.
- Six Feet Under (2001): Death is everywhere, and the family tries to love each other through it.
- The Father (2020): A parent's fading and a child's helpless love, intimate and heartbreaking.
- Ordinary People (1980): A family fractured by loss, with suppressed emotions and tentative reconciliation.
- Call Me by Your Name (2017): Sufjan's own songs drift through its sunlit ache of love, loss and a tender father-son talk.
- Fleabag (2016): Grief and guilt hidden behind humor, with raw confessions that break through.
- Paris, Texas (1984): Broken family, regret and quiet reckoning across vast, lonely American spaces.
