Aftersun (2022)

	Directed by: Charlotte Wells	COUNTRY UK/USA GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Aftersun RUNNING TIME 101 minutes
	Produced by: Adele Romanski Amy Jackson Barry Jenkins Mark Ceryak
	Written by: Charlotte Wells

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Calum	Paul Mescal
Sophie	Frankie Corio
Adult Sophie	Celia Rowlson-Hall	-
Belinda	Sally Messham	-
Michael	Brooklyn Toulson	-

Review

An artistically ambitious and in many ways consummate film from Scottish first-time director Charlotte Wells. A clearly personal story about an 11-year-old girl's final childhood summer holiday with her father in the late 1990s, Aftersun is an understated, connotative piece revolving around one of the most basic of human relations – the one between father and daughter – and how subtly impactful it can be. Wells' most impressive achievement with Aftersun is how every seemingly trivial occurrence and scene simmers with energy and an unexpressed foreboding which we slowly try to decipher together with the reminiscing filmmaker. Memory is fleeting and the human psyche can be a mystery to bystanders, even those who stand quite close, is Wells' message to us and herself here. The film has a clearly self-therapeutic origin which hopefully will be translatable in some sense or the other. There are fine performances from Paul Mescal as the father and the very talented Frankie Corio as the daughter.