Aftersun

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal, The Lost Daughter). As the 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 together become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.  With this spellbinding and searingly emotional debut film, director Charlotte Wells has fashioned a textured, gorgeously-rendered memory piece inspired by her relationship with her own father.  An A24 release. (Dir. Charlotte Wells, 2022, UK/USA, 102 mins., Rated R)