Aftersun (2022)
Starring Frankie Corio, Paul Mescal, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham, Ayşe 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
IHBM7.5Very good
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 miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
My review · Reviewed 02/03/2023
This film is a great example of a very minimalist storyline turning into something that produces a lot for the viewer to think about. We witness a daughter and her father going on a holiday together. Through the course of the movie we are directly told some things (the movie is set in the past, the father is divorced, etc) and we come to assume some other things. The movie using an interesting technique of "flashes" that allow the user to get a feel for what the main character (in present day) is thinking about as she tries to unpack the past.