As someone who lost their father at a young age, Honeyjoon connected with me almost immediately. Not because it tries to manufacture tears or deliver grand speeches about grief, but because it understands something far messier: losing someone doesn’t necessarily bring people together. Sometimes it creates distance. Sometimes it leaves people speaking entirely different emotional…
Grief is rarely a straight line, and neither is Honeyjoon. Equal parts heartfelt, hilarious and unexpectedly romantic, the film follows June and her Persian-British mother, Lela, as they journey to the breathtaking Azores Islands to mark the anniversary of a devastating loss. What begins as an act of remembrance soon becomes something far messier, funnier…
