In Aftersun, a father-daughter vacation turns memories into mesmerizing dreams
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.As their vacation progresses, Wells charts the emotional connection—and lack thereof—between father and daughter, following a series of small incidents and encounters that tell us how they feel about each other.
Yet Wells shows us an indisputably tactile relationship between father and daughter as the camera lovingly follows hands and limbs as they touch each other in ways that belie their deep connection.is as much a story of parental guilt as it is a childhood memory piece. Calum is able to be both loving and distant, and Sophie is confused by his different modes. Wells intercuts all that with the older Sophie as she becomes a parent herself.
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