Aftersun

Aftersun

A drama film. 101 minutes. Released in 2022. Directed by Charlotte Wells. Starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio.

The memories of a 30-year-old father and his 11-year-old daughter who spent a summer at a resort.

I thought that it was like Somewhere, in which Elle Fanning acted, by the middle but I sit up straight feeling that I seriously must watch it when the father starts to run toward the sea at night. I felt bittersweet watching the father saying goodbye to his daughter and how the daughter remembers it when she becomes an adult. I also could not get out of the seat for a while after the credits ended. Afterwards, I somehow wanted to watch it again at a theater and do it around ten days after. My heart was wrung by the father jovially dancing to Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen, the daughter charmingly clowning around at an airport and the daughter remembering it twenty years later. I was fascinated again.

After seeing it, I knew that the director, Charlotte Wells, filmed it based on her private experience. I was deeply impressed with it. An excellent work.