AFTERSUN

Review: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy she took with her divorced father in Turkey twenty years earlier.
Director: Charlotte Wells
Actors: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham, Spike Fearn, Harry Perdios, Ruby Thompson and Kayleigh Coleman
Year: 2022
Genre: Drama
Conclusion: 3/5
This film is loosely based on Charlotte Wells’ own personal experience of a holiday she went on with her own father. I have to say how much I enjoyed this film. I think that Charlotte Wells is an extraordinary director who I hope to see much more of in the future. I personally believed in the father and daughter relationship to the point where I forgot they were acting. I believed in the whole film. I thought that the editing was very good. The film doesn’t feel at all scripted in any way. I very much enjoyed the music, especially the vocal for the song Under Pressure. It is a very clever film as all the way through it has got this vibe where something bad is going to happen. This is one of my favourite films of 2022. It is a film I would happily sit and watch again and is a completely different film to what I originally thought it would be. At the Bafta Awards in 2023 this won one award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer (Charlotte Wells).