Aftersun (2022)
Director:
Charlotte Wells
Actors:
Calum
Sophie
Adult Sophie
Belinda
Teen Girl 1
Genre:
Drama
Rating:
(131’192 votes)
(131’192 votes)
Quotes:
« Sophie: I think it's nice that we share the same sky.
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« Calum: What you mean?
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« Sophie: Well, like… Sometimes at playtime, I look up at the sky and if I can see the Sun then… I think that the fact that we can both see the Sun, so even though we're not actually in the same place and we're not actually together… we kind of are in a way, you know? Like we're both underneath the same sky, so… kind of together.
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« Sophie: Don't you ever feel like… you've just done a whole amazing day and then you come home and feel tired and down and… it feels like your bones don't work, they're just tired, and everything is tired. Like you're sinking. I don't know, it's weird.
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« Calum: And there's this feeling, once you leave where you're from, like, where you grew up, that, um, you don't totally belong there again.
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Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:102 minutes
Plots:
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). 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, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film.
Sophie reflects on her summer holiday with her father at a budget seaside resort when she was 11. With great attention to detail, she replays those nostalgic, sun-kissed memories of happy times in her mind. After all, Sophie still tries to process the fading remembrance of her father by filling in the blanks through bittersweet recorded recollections two decades later. However, memory is unreliable. Either way, Sophie needs to make sense of the parent she loved but thought she knew.
Official website:
A24
