Winner of the Cannes Critics' Week, multi-award winning at the Deauville American Film Festival, surprise nomination for the Oscar for best actor, won last Tuesday, by his Irish revelation Paul Mescal, just 26 years old.
A deceptively simple account of vacations in Turkey in the early 1990s of Calum, a precocious single father, and Sophie, his 11-year-old daughter,
Aftersun
emerged without warning in this awards season, dazzling with its delicacy, its ability to stay as close as possible to the inexpressible of feelings without providing a definitive interpretation.
Short hair, lowered gaze, small voice that is bad on Zoom, its director, Charlotte Wells, did not get used to the curiosity it arouses.
Don't call this Scot living in New York a prodigy.
She replies that she gave birth to this first film at the "advanced" age of 35 after having experienced a first life in the financial sector and signed only three short films.
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