Aftersun (2022, directed by Charlotte Wells) is a visually gorgeous and emotionally brazen semi-autobiographic film about a young girl called Sophie and her holiday in Turkey with her father. The film exists in the cavernous space between what we perceive of our parents when we are children, and what we know to be true of them as adults. In 2025, it almost swallowed me whole.

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