Aftersun

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
  • antonio-derani - 5 June 2024
    Boring as hell
    Ok, I get it that this is a wannabe cult movie. But the shaking camera (epileptics beware), the exceeding long scenes with nothing (like the first one when the father dances at the balcony with his back to the camera), and the people's faces out of frame (sometimes only part of the face is on screen) are too much even for a cult movie.

    The movie has no message so they overused these techniques to cover the lack of substance.

    If you dont sleep earlier, you will go through the movie trying to find clues to discover what is the intended message. Reaching the end and not finding any, you will either justify your loss of time by praising this movie as "original" or you will realize the farce. I am among the second group of people.
  • MikeyB1793 - 19 March 2024
    More than mundane
    Poorly filmed, useless dialogue leading nowhere.

    Long scenes of people snoring, sitting by the pool, the beach.

    It's amateur night - as in this is my summer vacation with dear old dad Why would anyone care??

    There is not much feeling conveyed. There was one nice scene of them buying a carpet. Did they even bargain - this is Turkey after all.

    There is absolutely no sense of location - it could have been filmed anywhere . Did Dad bother to take her to see any cultural sites.? No mood is imparted through-out with no sense of character development - except to be cute

    Thank God for the fast-forward button. A real bore-fest. Had nothing to say.