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AFTERSUN
1966 Hall
Fri, Nov 11, 2022 7:40 PM
Post-screening discussion with Sarah Childress, Nashville Film Festival
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye 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 heart rending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film. “Though any honest summation can't do it justice, Charlotte Wells's tender feature debut is the kind of revelation that movie fans dream of finding: not a wow so much as a guaranteed piece of emotional ravishment.” —Joshua Rothkopf, Entertainment Weekly
“Wells, in her first feature, embraces the inherent messiness of it all perfectly. This is a collage of emotion pieced together from photographs, a souvenir rug, shaky home videos... the mind, of course, and the horrible/wonderful songs of that summer.” —Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
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