Film: AFTERSUN

(2022) UK
Length: 101 mins  Rating: 12A
Director: Charlotte Wells
Cast: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall.

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum.  As the  world of adolescence creeps into view, she is unaware as 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 that she knew with the man she didn’t.

• Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Paul Mescal.
• Named one of the best films of 2022 by the National Board of Review, and was awarded top place by Sight and Sound on its poll for the best films of the year.
• 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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