Aftersun Offers a Lovely Rumination on Parents and Children

What was once just regular life can, through the prisms of memory and further experience, come to seem rather profound. That’s a sentiment beautifully illustrated in debut writer-director Charlotte Wells’s film Aftersun (in theaters October 21), a movie that considers the past as it was then and as it would come to mean later. The film concerns a father, Calum (Paul Mescal), and his tweenage daughter, Sophie (the remarkable newcomer Frankie Corio) on holiday in Turkey. Sophie’s parents are no longer together, and we get the sense that this is a rare chance for Sophie to bond with her dad,… Read Full Article