Aftersun
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. 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 heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
- Released: 2022-10-21
- Runtime: 101 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Frankie Corio, Paul Mescal, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham, Ayse Parlak, Sophia Lamanova, Brooklyn Toulson, Spike Fearn, Harry Perdios, Frank Corio, Ruby Thompson, Ethan James Smith, Onur Ekşioğlu, Cafer Karahan, Kayleigh Coleman, John Stuifzand, Tyler Mutlu, Kieran Burton, Nijat Gachayev, Sarah Makharine, Erol Cengizalp
- Director: Charlotte Wells
Comments
- sarezale - 11 January 2023
Unappealing miserablism
Boring moments in the boring lives of boring people... told in a boring way.
In a film too heavy on ellipsis, I found it very difficult to engage with the characters, about whom we get to learn very little throughout the film.
Boring and uneventful does not equal poignant or arty in my opinion.
Although formally there is some interesting experimentation, I found the film rather vacuous.
Yes, I get that the film seems to be precisely about the emptiness in the character's life, etc. But I feel cheated by the director's determined refusal to give clearer hints about why the character is feeling that way at that particular stage in his life.
