Aftersun
1 Oscar Nominations
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Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
What critics thought
Charlotte Wells's debut is nearly unanimously celebrated as a quiet marvel — a film about memory, parenthood, and the grief of retrospect that critics found formally daring rather than merely intimate. The near-universal enthusiasm centers on Wells's ability to let the film's meaning accumulate obliquely, with Paul Mescal's performance and the dreamlike editing doing as much work as any line of dialogue.
“very nearly reinventing the language of film, unlocking the medium's often dormant potential to disclose inner worlds of consciousness and feeling”
A.O. Scott·The New York Times
“measured but relentless probing ... mark her out as one of the most promising new voices in British cinema in recent years”
Fionnuala Halligan·Screen Daily
“brings to the surface what was kept simmering throughout: the searing pain of loss that's led Sophie to reflect on the past”
Pat Brown·Slant Magazine
“deftly orchestrated, empathetic and honest character study”
Beth Webb·Empire
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorCharlotte Wells
StarringPaul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Brooklyn Toulson, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham
ComposerOliver Coates
Aftersun
1 Oscar Nominations
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
What critics thought
Charlotte Wells's debut is nearly unanimously celebrated as a quiet marvel — a film about memory, parenthood, and the grief of retrospect that critics found formally daring rather than merely intimate. The near-universal enthusiasm centers on Wells's ability to let the film's meaning accumulate obliquely, with Paul Mescal's performance and the dreamlike editing doing as much work as any line of dialogue.
“very nearly reinventing the language of film, unlocking the medium's often dormant potential to disclose inner worlds of consciousness and feeling”
A.O. Scott·The New York Times
“measured but relentless probing ... mark her out as one of the most promising new voices in British cinema in recent years”
Fionnuala Halligan·Screen Daily
“brings to the surface what was kept simmering throughout: the searing pain of loss that's led Sophie to reflect on the past”
Pat Brown·Slant Magazine
“deftly orchestrated, empathetic and honest character study”
Beth Webb·Empire
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorCharlotte Wells
StarringPaul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Brooklyn Toulson, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham
ComposerOliver Coates
Rent/Purchase