Aftersun 2022 Movie Review

I tend to underestimate the importance of memories in one’s life. I hate to see these old photos that I appraisals when I still had the reflex to smile in the face of a goal, I get rid of objects that could be me one day to become important with a facility of more disconcerting. Then Aftersun, through the memories of others, proves to me otherwise and reminds me that memory can be as fragile as important. And if at that moment everything may seem subtle and uninteresting, it will not be perhaps not in a decade.

For a little less than two hours, it follows Sophie and her father Calum through the summer holiday they spend together in Turkey. Just the two of us. To him is his father, a guy who looks much too young to be and teenagers make the mistake of identifying him as the big brother of the small brunette. A loving father, loving, who wears the hat of “father”, but drives like a very good friend to his daughter. It is his daughter whom he doesn’t see often enough, at least since his separation with the one who continues to say “I love you” to the outcome of each call. In a full holiday, there are two spend good times that only summer can provide.

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The day, you see them sunbathing under a sunny sky, swimming in the pool well frequented the hotel in which they stay. In the evening, they dine on the outside, dancing the macarena, and enjoy the calm and serenity of moments around a nice plate and a glass which allows it to soak up the nose, offering him his first sip of alcohol. And if this was it can only keep the good memories, a decade later, is made of something else?

The film is a long flashback observed by Sophie via the light of the projector through old records that she captured many years earlier with the camcorder of his father we see it used throughout the film, with innocence and lightness, in order to allow images of what may be the best summer of their lives.

A was different from the others. Because on the one hand, Sophie has one more year, this year. For her, it is the summer for the first time. She no longer wants to play with the other children of her age, but rather spend time with the oldest, the coolest. Those who kiss, those who drink, those who speak of things that she is not big enough to understand. And that of the other, one sees Calum mope around and be eaten by an evil that the presence of his daughter soothes more that could do with a handful of medications as the days go by and it will soon have to say goodbye. This summer is not like the other: it could well be their last.

Is that Calum dead, in the present? Is it that he committed suicide shortly after being separated from his daughter at the airport? Maybe it is. Or maybe it’s wrong-be continues to gnaw on. It knows too much about anything, even if the end seems more obvious about it.

The realization of Charlotte Wells is subtle and mostly focuses on the characters, nothing on the characters. We can expect to see a backstory rather worked and well described, but it is nothing: simply join Sophie and Calum on full vacation. They live with them. The good times and the bad. In a way, this is all we need. The possibility of understanding, and interpreting itself-even the film and its few moments of silence. Regardless of what could happen before they embark on a vacation: all these are the few days they spend in Turkey.

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I think it’s nice that we share the same sky. Sometimes at playtime, I look up to the sky, and if I can see the sun, I think about the fact that we can both see the sun. So, even though we’re not actually in the same place, and we’re not actually together, we kind of are in a way, you know?

The film is a mix of tranquillity and bitterness. The peace and quiet can be seen by observing Calum and Sophie exchange smiles, laughs and sweet words. The bitterness is witnessed through leaps in the present: when Sophie, who is older, is benefiting from her own records to try to solve a mystery that she was much too small to resolve at the time while his father did his best to hide his pain and keep an air of stolid to offer beautiful moments before she has to return home to his mother. Times it spoils sometimes without intending to, but he always ends up apologizing when he plunged his gaze into hers. He who has no great thing, and that is almost broke.

The film is carried by a duo which was considered too rare. They are father and daughter, but could also be a brother and sister. You can see the wonderful Paul Mescal, Calum, which rises not bad since the release of Normal People, and that seems to go from a promising project. But also and especially by Frankie Corio Sophie, who gets a little out of nowhere but who gives a performance that is incredibly well-nuanced and very relevant to the character that she played, the character, it is fun to see them grow up for the summer behind this camera, with which she broke out as any kid would.

Aftersun is, to my mind, a small film with a big heart.

The next projects of Charlotte Wells are to be monitored since it presents us here one of the most beautiful films of the year. Some people complain that it’s slow, it’s quite contemplative. Me, I found it brilliant.

Safe travels, bye-bye.
I love you.

When the vacation ends and I find myself alone like an idiot at the boarding gate, the film reminds me of the importance of creating memories and keeping them with the self, for as long as possible.