A girl and her father on holiday in Turkey: pure bliss in the blazing sun. But there are demons roaring in his father that he can’t hide. Charlotte Wells’ bittersweet debut Aftersun wowed critics at Cannes.
“When you were eleven,” asks Sophie, “how did you imagine you would be today?” Sophie is also eleven years old, she has the camera on her thirty-year-old father. Her youthful face is in shadow, he smiles wryly. And he turns away without answering.
The movie “Aftersun” is an attempt to get this man back. In the photo, in the light. A lovable lost, kindhearted but sad person. The director of the experiment is Scottish director Charlotte Wells. His feature debut delighted the Arthaus film critics at Cannes this year. After its Austrian premiere at the Viennale, Stadtkino-Verleih took it to cinemas across the country – in cooperation with the modern art film streaming service Mubi, which has also been selling internationally for some time.