Tue, 21 Feb
|Bracknell
Aftersun (12A) at South Hill Park
Stylistically daring, emotionally piercing and beautifully understated tale of love and loss GUARDIAN
Time & Location
21 Feb 2023, 19:00
Bracknell, Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA, UK
About the Event
Directed by Charlotte Wells | Drama | English/Turkish with subtitles | 98 mins | UK/USA | 2022
At a fading resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). 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 heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
I had my top-five-movies-of-the-year list all sorted. Now - boom! - I’ve had to start from scratch. Damn you, Mescal, for being the cornerstone of something so beautiful EVENING STANDARD