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- Aftersun
- Early life and education
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- 「時音」Vol.5 Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Realistic Lens on Times of Crisis
- Aftersun Ending Explained: Exploring The Meaning And What Happened To Calum
- Director Charlotte Wells on her debut Aftersun — the most lauded British film of the year
- Cannes Classics To Screen Tsui Hark's 'Shanghai Blues' Restoration
During their big balcony moment, Princess Charlotte enjoyed a giggle with her brother as they waved to the throngs of royal well-wishers lining the Mall. The youngster sweetly flashed a warm smile as she observed her brother making a series of cheeky faces. Princess Charlotte protectively held Prince Louis' hand as the sibling duo made their way into Westminster Abbey ahead of King Charles and Queen Camilla's spectacular coronation ceremony.
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The look of concern on the mother’s face, and the tone of the school day’s interactions, give a sense of some unspoken loss hanging over the girl. Each detail tugs at you until finally, after the girl has spent the afternoon alone in the dying light of her father’s apartment, her mother arrives to quietly take her home. “Aftersun” is one of those films that lingers long after you have watched it.
Early life and education
She looked at the teenagers with awe as they made out and partied at night. This was a world she had not taken a close look at, and she developed the desire to grow up and become independent, just like the young adults she met. While Sophie tried to figure out the newness that came with growing up, Calum struggled with his own demons, which at times became too difficult to take control of. “Aftersun” begins with a Handycam video in which Sophie asks her father what he imagined her to be at the age of 11. It is established that the film is mostly from Sophie’s perspective, both as an eleven-year-old and as an adult.
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When Sophie shared with him how she kissed a boy the previous night, he expressed how he hoped for Sophie to share with him details about her personal life—be it the boys she chose to date or the drugs she indulged in taking. He added that he had done it all so she could too, but she needed to share it with him. Even though this is an intimate conversation, visually, we stay far from the characters. It is almost as if we give the characters a moment of privacy or secrecy, the same secrecy that Calum promises Sophie. From this conversation, we also get a sense that Calum might have had a colorful young adult life, but maybe he never had someone to look up to, share his mistakes with, or advise him and help him get back on the right track.
「時音」Vol.5 Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Realistic Lens on Times of Crisis
To those reading the runes, there were signs that Aftersun might become something special. One was the name Barry Jenkins on the credits, the Oscar-winning director of Moonlight serving as a producer. “An amazing person to have in my corner,” enthuses Wells, who lives in New York. Many more have been moved by “Aftersun.” Devastated, actually, is more like it. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, “Aftersun” has accumulated a rare kind of buzz. I see so many readings on the film and I’m very reluctant to invalidate them because the core expression is kind of similar, regardless of your take.
But that’s the kind of question that will become informed by every viewer’s own life experience. Wells, who has received a DGA nomination for first-time feature directing, crafted an intimate yet ambitious memory film about a young father and his daughter making the most of their shared time together. “Be gentle with me,” she seemed to be saying, but a little under two hours later it was the rest of us that needed support, the audience rising unsteadily to its feet for a two-minute standing ovation. It was like a meteor had smashed in through the roof and landed square in my lap, all glowing embers of grief I didn’t know what to do with.
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It was the only time he could spend all by himself, and with a sense of peace, he swayed to an inaudible rhythm. The father-daughter dynamic was a frequent topic of conversation after her first feature-film debut Aftersun, a film about a father and daughter. 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) goes on summer vacation to a Turkish resort with her father, Calum (Paul Mescal), who lives apart. The two spend happy, precious moments with each other, sometimes conversing awkwardly with a camcorder in one hand. In writing Aftersun, she played back old Mini-DV tapes that her father shot of her, sometimes drawing dialogue from the footage.
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“I am interested in exploring the unknowability of ourselves and the people closest to [us],” Wells explained. “I think, even as you grow older, it’s hard to see your parents as people. But they’re still your parents.” Trying to understand anyone, the film posits, is an act of love. When a child tries to understand a parent, it’s the deepest kind of love there is.
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The turkey trip was not just significant from the aspect of the father-daughter relationship but also because it was during the trip that Sophie started to come of age. She recalled how teenagers were discussing their sex lives while she was in a bathroom stall. Sophie felt she was too old to hang out with the kids at the pool, but at the same time, she struggled to completely understand or be a part of a teenage group.
I was interested in an expression of some truth from my own relationship, and the love that I experienced. It had great freedom, expression, and community, but I also saw another side of that; people on drugs with desperate facial expressions. What at first was a place of liberation could become a place of inescapability. I feel like most people’s memories are based on images, which is why film is a great medium for works about memory. Many of the scenes with adult Sophie show her in a rave-type situation watching her father dance.
Aftersun builds its tension by allowing the audience to slowly see more and more of Calum’s pain, until we watch him break down crying. He could have died due to some of his self-destructive behavior, or his mental health issues could have gotten so bad that he disappeared, never to be seen again. His fate isn’t confirmed, but this is a film about grief and loss, at least one aspect of it. So whatever has happened to Calum, the loving father from the vacation is gone forever. We then see Calum recording her as she boards a plane back to Edinburgh to be with her mother and return to her life.
It stars beloved Irish actor Paul Mescal as a young father, Calum, while breakout actress Frankie Corio portrays his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie. The driving force behind the film was my desire to represent that kind of father. At the same time, it presented challenges because people are accustomed to seeing the deadbeat dad onscreen, and that’s what they want to see.
Perhaps that is what comes from being a wunderkind with a generous dose of life experience. Murmur of the Hearts by Sylvia Chang was the last film that I sobbed at in the way that people describe sobbing at this film. I saw that in the midst of writing this and was inconsolable. It was so limiting in a way for her, whereas for me, it felt of infinite possibility. People try to box it in, in terms of distributor or the support that I received. But I wasn’t necessarily thinking about the form conforming to anything other than pursuing which films interested me.
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