Movie

Aftersun

2022 · 101 min

A sunlit holiday drifting into quiet sorrow, watched through grainy memory and half-understood glances that linger long after.

Tagline: Memory burns.
Overview: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, parenthood, grief, coming-of-age
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
parenthood
grief
coming-of-age
isolation
Places: sea
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild