2022 · drama
Aftersun
Directed by Charlotte Wells1h 41m2022
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.
Our read: Aftersun (2022) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intimate
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