Aftersun

  • 11-year-old Sophie leaning on her napping father Calum (Paul Mescal) in a cast
  • Sophie and her father Calum (Paul Mescal) in T-shirts lying on a tiled floor by the pool of a hotel in Turkiye as they look up the sky

Oscar Nominee: Best Actor – Paul Mescal

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.

Runtime
1h 41m
Year
2022
Director
Charlotte Wells
Format
DCP
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English