Aftersun

Director: Charlotte Wells Run Time: 102 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2022

Starring: Ayşe Parlak, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Frankie Corio, Paul Mescal, Sally Messham

Director: Charlotte Wells | Runtime: 98 minutes | Year: 2022 | Rating: R | Country: UK | Language: English | Fiction

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heart rending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film.

Critic Quotes:

“An ode to cinema as a machine for remembering.” – Little White Lies

“A work of masterful and almost unbearable melancholy.” – Vulture

“A beautifully sculpted and quietly shattering first feature from the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells.” – Los Angeles Times

“The power of the film comes from its embrace of the basic and universal fact of loss.” – The New York Times

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