Aftersun

The movie was great in cinema and now great at home

As one critic put it - this work may redefine what it's possible to achieve in film.The diametric opposite of the expository spoon fed banality of your standard Hollywood 'blockbuster' at a fraction of the cost; as well as all the worthy wordy Oscar bait message laden efforts we've seen of late.From Charlotte Wells obsessive attention to detail in direction & writing to the edit, sound track, production design, lighting and sound design and music - creating a whole - mesmeric, immersive and deeply moving piece.That would all be enough. But far far more the film is unique in its ability to engage everyone who sees it with a different set of emotions, perspectives - understanding and unique take - based on their own background and upbringing & experience with mental health. Whilst all being overarched by the absolute universality of the father/child and family relationship.EVERYONE is someone's father or someone's child.The best film of 2022 bar none.One very minor quibble is that the Blu-Ray's DTS 5.1 and Dolby rendering is a little bit hit and miss - but I guess the budget didn't really stretch to better job and I'm sure the cinema, streaming and future TV screening will all be fine in that regard and it all adds to the charm and won't impact your enjoyment at all.All that being said it's a film you will come back to again and again, and the Oliver Coates theme / Under Pressure vocal mash up overlayed on the film's climax is worth the price of admission on its own.Truly amazing.

Beautiful, haunting and bittersweet.This film is excellent, a lot of films will show or tell a story, this one captures it. The acting is phenomenal by both Paul Mescal & Frankie Corio. You'd never know it was her first film, I was blown away. The soundtrack is likewise 10/10 and helps capture the setting well. The whole film feels like a memory due to it's excellent acting, pacing, sound and cinematography.This is a must see if you want something that will make you think a little and feel a lot more.The dvd features some nice cardboard screenshots when bought new also and the extra features are interesting if you enjoy the film.

A simple but heartbreaking story, where the holiday sun hides the characters' inner cracks. The film's pace is slow and can be disconcerting at first, but it reproduces the languor of a vacation that seems long at first and then flies by as you near the end.The reproduced photos contained in this edition are nice to have too

I'm in love with this film. The story of a father and daughter on holidays withh so many issues on their lives.

'Aftersun' is a great first movie. Great script, great directing, great craftsmanship. The movie deserves every award it gets. I hope Mubi continues to offer such Blu-ray movies. Thank you to Amzon for delivering this product from UK to Istanbul in 3 days.

Cheaper and with more extras than the A24 edition.

This the first full feature (it is quite a short film by modern standards), directed and written by Charlotte Wells. The film is about a woman who may have just celebrated her thirtieth birthday (30 is a dangerous age) attempting to "reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't", (this is from the blurb). It was filmed in 2022.The daughter is Sophie, played as a child by Frankie Corio, and is 11 at the time she goes on her last holiday to Turkey, in the late 1990s with her father. Her father, Callum, is played by Paul Mescal. Callum is clearly estranged from Sophie's mother and has not recovered from this rupture. The film begins at the airport, in something akin to 'found footage', that is a discordant sequence of shots, some stills some moving. They stay at two hotels, in the same resort, presumably moving because there is only a shared double bed in the first. Father and daughter then engage in all the obvious holiday activities, swimming, diving, spending time in amusement arcades, having meals together, going on outings, going to shops and the compulsory karaoke. The scenes - some of which are very short - are not in sequence. There are flashbacks early in the film to a later event in the holiday.Callum is filming the holiday and spends some time in their room, seemingly editing it - not all of what the viewer sees could have been viewed by Sophie, so some of what is seen must be Sophie trying to make sense of the holiday. Callum at times pushes Sophie beyond her comfort zone (particularly the diving and volleyball). Callum engages in telephone calls (to his ex-wife?) and at times is simply 'not there' which indicates that he has problems which Sophie cannot understand either as her 11 year self, or presumably at 30. His problems do not seem to involve money - which he seems to spend quite freely - though perhaps he knows this will be the last holiday. There is a sense of foreboding within the film. Why is this Sophie's last memory of her father?Throughout the film the transition from one scene to another is punctuated by collages of stills of Callum and others dancing in a rave, and as this sequence is repeated it seems increasingly likely that one of the others is adult Sophie. The stills are edited together to create a stobic effect of light and dark disjointed movement.While her interactions with her father are claustrophobic, intense, but by and large pleasurable, Sophie also interacts with a range of teenagers and children. She plays pool with them, chats to them at the bar, sees two teenagers hetero-sexually 'making-out' and two young males doing much the same. She is curious about this slightly older 'club' and snogs a boy of her own age to try it out. One of the girls who is leaving gives her an arm-band which means she can order her own non-alcoholic drinks at the bar.The climax of the holiday and the central event adult Sophie would seem to be trying to understand, is the night of the karaoke, where she sings REMs Losing My Religion, which for those who know it is highly symbolic - and according to the director marks her coming of age. Soon afterwards Callum decides to have an early night - goes to their room, where he spends some time watching the film of the holiday, while Sophie socialises with the teenagers, Callum, for no obvious reason goes down to the beach, and swims in the sea. On the way he picks up a discarded cigarette and finishes smoking it. He goes back to the room and falls asleep naked on the bed. Sophie is locked out of the room and cannot get in either when Callum is at the beach or after he has fallen asleep. She is let into the room by the night-porter in what I assume is the early hours of the morning. She covers Callum up and falls asleep herself. What follows is probably the core of the film which cuts to the rave and then to adult Sophie, who is in bed with her female partner, and she has woken up suddenly, presumably recalling these events. her partner wishes her happy birthday, and you see at Sophie's feet the Turkish rug her father purchased for her on the holiday. Then you hear the sound of a baby crying - and then you cut back to young Sophie sleeping.In the morning Callum awakes and is in tears about his actions. They go together on a day trip to a Turkish spa where he apologises and makes amends. On the last night of the holiday there is a disco, where Callum gets up and engages in some truly awful dad-dancing, Sophie joins him, and there are a series of rapid cuts between young Sophie dancing with her dad, and adult Sophie dancing at the rave.The final scene is back at the airport - they are not travelling back together, and Sophie is therefore presumably going to be met by her mother on landing. I may have missed it - I am not sure where Sophie is flying to and I am not really sure whether Callum flies anywhere. The scene once again resembles 'found-footage' and could contain elements of the opening scene. One still becomes the screen in Sophie's flat - my reading of this is that on waking (and I hope tending to the crying baby!) Sophie has been watching the film of the holiday. The camera pans around from the screen around Sophie's flat until you see Sophie holding the camcorder, which seems to be the one her father used, then you pan further until you see her father, holding the same camcorder standing in an airport corridor, he turns, walks away, the doors close behind him - and presumably this was the last time Sophie saw her father.I have listened to quite a lot of the director's commentary - which is mainly technical. You find out the 'how' but not the 'why' of the film. The script originally ended with the disco-rave scene but was extended and extensively revised as Blair McClendon, the cinematographer created various edits. In addition, while some scenes were scripted the activity scenes involved some improvised dialogue by the actors. At times the dialogue is stilted and repetitious, but of course so is real life. Frankie and Paul create a convincing father-daughter relationship, and considerable effort was expended upon finding locations and recreating a New York flat and an airport corridor in Turkey.From the perspective of the viewer the primary problem with the film is the prime-moving event, that Callum never sees his daughter again, is unexplained. There are several possible reasons - did Callum commit suicide, did he find being an absentee parent so hurtful that he severed contact, or was Sophie so far away that contact was effectively impossible? From the publicity blurb I expected there to be a second part to this film (and perhaps there will be), in which Sophie makes some progress in understanding this severance. What about adult Sophie? The only fact that we certainly know about her is that she is in a same sex relationship. Why does the audience need to know this? What has this fact, if anything, to do with the holiday? Without some understanding of the central event the film cannot have a trajectory. in addition the film is a sequence of techniques - no doubt very well done, but many of them ( I exempt the 360 degree panning shot at the end), obscure or impede understanding. Indeed the focus on technique seems at odds with a film about the end of a father daughter bond, which is by definition emotional.

Watch this movie!!! Sensitive, troubling, fills you with questions. I loved this film.

No se, me rompió el corazón y me la compro para tenerla, no me entiendo. Edición preciosa, viene, como todas las de mubi, con unas postales que te recuerdan lo mucho que lloras con la peli, que bien

In dem Film geht es um die Erinnerungen einer jungen Frau an den letzten gemeinsamen Urlaub mit ihrem Vater. Dabei beginnt sie zu verstehen, was sie als Kind nicht konnte - dass dieser schwer depressiv war. Aber sie entdeckt auch den komplexen Charakter ihres Vaters und was er ihr mit diesen letzten gemeinsamen Momenten hinterlassen wollte. Es ist ein tieftrauriger und zugleich wundervoller Film über eine Vatef-Tochter-Beziehung, großartig gespielt von den beiden Hauptcharakteren. Ein unglaubliches Regiedebut!

Le film est très beau, le coffret est à son image.Prévoyez des mouchoirs le film est très touchant

Esta película es una joya. De las pocas que te dejan días (incluso semanas) después pensando en ella todo el tiempo, analizando cada detalle. Hacía mucho tiempo que una película no me provocaba tantísimas emociones. Parece simple pero es muy profunda. Los dos protagonistas hacen unas interpretaciones de Oscar.La edición está muy cuidada con sobrecubierta de cartón y dentro vienen 6 postales.