i can’t remember the last time that emotions hit me so unexpectedly, overwhelmingly and unexplainably. a beautiful and haunting recollection of memories.

I do not know what to say. Feeling lost, emptied is what i am feeling right now. I criied but did not know the reason for it after the ending scene. The film is just so beautiful and real, honestly do not know what to say... Update: Im just sucked at reading all the signs in the movies so yea i searched for some unpacked vids to see what the film actually means, yea now i found it and def did cry my eyes out again. Now i feel all the pain, the meaningful of this masterpiece, best film this year for me and now one of the best fav movies of all time for me too. I do not know if i can suffer thru this since i watched this movie tho

Every frame a mundane and beautiful work of art punched straight into your chest where it stays for many days. But if you don't like/understand films without robots/talking cats, you'll struggle with this one and probably think it deserves 2 stars.

Ignore the reviews claiming this film is boring, has a bad ending. The average film-goer nowadays wants a formulaic, linear story with a neat and tidy ending, and find bittersweet / unresolved movies frustrating. Like (500) Days of Summer, La La Land, this movie will make you yearn for more, not just for your sake but for that of the protagonist's happiness. You will search for clues and want to absorb every scene, and it will stay with you for days as an emotionally poignant piece of art. However, if you want a more neat and tidy film, stick to a braindead Marvel regurgitation where you can spend 45 minutes of the runtime playing on your phone and still know what's going on.

Yes, great acting, so two stars for that. Yes, confusing, poorly edited, and achingly boring in spots. Yes, the amateur home movie-making shtick got old fast like anyone stuck watching a friend's home movies. So, see these fine actors in better films and don't waste your time on this one.

I couldn’t figure out what happened at the end of the movie. Great acting but the ending left me baffled

Despite a couple of powerhouse performances, Aftersun is too dull to be enjoyable. The unnecessarily long shots and lack of relevant events make the bleak story even more unbearable. I get why many praise the film, but it was just too slow for me.

Aftersun can make you feel devasted, because this film exploring complex emotions and conflitting feelings how you can't explain. It's a Charlotte's summer memories film, so everything is filming with analog camera and the setting was a feast for the eyes.

Shitbox of a movie don't waste your precious time watching this.

It's a tender little film but nothing remarkable. Its slow burning, very slow burning, I wanted it to end sooner. There's only that one scene that got me towards the end, but that was it. Movie overall can easily be forgettable.

In the late 1990s, Scottish 11-year old Sophie (Frankie Corio) travels to a Turkish holiday resort with her young father Calum (Paul Mescal), who moved to London after having separated amicably from her mother. Sophie records the holiday on a MiniDV camera, the footage of which is interspersed throughout the film. Over the course of the holiday, Sophie befriends and observes various English tourists at the resort, often meeting and playing arcade games with a boy named Michael. Calum exhibits signs of depression, anxiety, and internal turmoil, which he tries to hide from his daughter beneath a facade of contentment. During his time alone, he is seen engaging in Tai chi patterns and reading self-help books; he is also shown smoking, which he hides from Sophie... Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus reads, "Led by Frankie Corio's tremendous performance, Aftersun deftly ushers audiences to the intersection between our memories of loved ones and who they really are." The New York Times critic A.O. Scott described the film as "astonishing and devastating" and commended Wells for "very nearly reinventing the language of film, unlocking the medium's often dormant potential to disclose inner worlds of consciousness and feeling." Screen Daily's Fionnuala Halligan wrote that Wells' "measured but relentless probing ... mark her out as one of the most promising new voices in British cinema in recent years". Guy Lodge of Variety described the film as "sensuous, sharply moving". Carlos Aguilar of TheWrap praised Gregory Oke's "visually fluid" cinematography and thought that it "evokes a radiant melancholia". Writing in Empire, Beth Webb praised the film as being a "deftly orchestrated, empathetic and honest character study" and "A triumph of new British filmmaking." In 2024, filmmaker Christopher Nolan cited Aftersun as one of his favorite films, calling it "just a beautiful film." (Via Wikipedia) Been wanting to see "Aftersun" since it came out as I heard good things about it and Paul Mescal was brilliant in "Normal People". The fact is that "Aftersun" is solely built on an enigmatic and cryptic script, missing out on being subtle and nuanced instead as someone else mentions on IMDB. I struggled with the overlong shots that didn´t add anything to these specific scenes, the crosscutting with dream sequences and other sequences, the almost numbness of boredom that hit me due to the the missing of dynamics and the strong feeling of an underdeveloped choppy storyline which created on gigantic opening to an array of interpretations when it comes to both story and character development. I reckon what Charlotte Wells tried to achieve a mundane Kitchen sink realism story, but falls in the arty farty pitfall, forgetting that you need at least a backbone that engages the viewer. I felt nothing for the characters, which is a clear fail in my book, despite great performances from both Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal. "Aftersun" was a disappointment for me. Trivia: "Aftersun" had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2022, where Wells was nominated for the Caméra d'Or. The film received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised Wells' direction and screenplay, cinematography, visuals, and the performances of Corio and Mescal. It received four nominations at the 76th BAFTA awards, where Wells won for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Mescal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 95th Academy Awards. Aftersun was named one of the best films of 2022 by the National Board of Review[4] and was awarded top place by Sight and Sound on its poll for the best films of 2022.

A poignant memoir, silvery and still: duel struggles knit into oneness with tentative empathy and impressive maturity.

This coming-of-age drama follows the fascinating dynamics between an 11-year-old Scottish girl on holiday and her father at a Turkish resort on the eve of his 31st birthday. The shared joy and melancholy of this holiday is presented through her recollections that become a powerful and heart-rending portrait of their relationship. It is a deeply emotional movie where everything is implicit. The evident depression of the main character is handled delicately and subtly with a lot of symbolism, which makes the storytelling even smarter and more devastating. The film demands a lot of attention from the viewer with the balance between its warm scenes and its dark scenes, and even if the ending might be confusing, once you understand it, everything becomes clearer. Paul Mescal slays it with his complex performance, Frankie Corio is a child prodigy, and the cinematography is just incredible! Also the dance at the end is the most heartbreaking thing ever!

Interesting, artistic, tasteful.

I made an account just to write a review on this movie. It touches the deepest parts of your truest self through incredibly sincere acting and filmmaking, every moment is naturally and genuinely packed with love and deep pain. If you watch any movie in your lifetime, this should be the one.

This film lingers long after you finish it. There’s a depth to the father/ daughter relationship that is so viscerally beautiful and yet tragic.

Movie that in hindsight becomes even more meaningful. Slow, experimental pace - and life is more like that than some never-stopping action movie - and with some aspects that I'm not certain I understood. The performance of young Frankie Coria was phenomenal - hope she rises to be a special performer, if she wishes to continue in the movie business. Her character's wish to extend her vacation with her Dad touched a nerve, as that is what I had always wished with my estranged son and he probably desired it, too. I wouldn't be surprised if he sometimes reminisces, like the older version of the child, about what could have been the relationship with his Dad.

Há um lirismo fantástico e surreal nos diálogos entre pai e filha, da mesma forma que relata um cotidiano, implicitamente expõe de forma singela a melancolia e complexidade das relações familiares entre famílias separadas, e o mal do seculo, a depressão (eu não percebi, tal qual Sophie quando filmava, só apos ler as criticas percebi)… Baseado levemente na vida, infância e relacionamento familiar de Charlotte Wells… Atuações impecáveis, tudo muito simples e aconchegante, Apaixonante…

Another movie with a terrible ending. What a waste of time. Worthless.

The fact that I still can't get this movie out of my head a good month after watching it - even though I have watched a good number of other movies since - goes to show how much of a mark it left on me. I'll never listen to R.E.M.'s "Losing my religion" the same way ever again. The chemistry between the two lead actors is nothing short of magic whilst Wells' direction and storytelling abilities render this film so heart-breaking yet heart-warming at the same time. A must-see!