Charlotte Wells: the rising star behind bittersweet Aftersun
Aftersun, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born director Charlotte Wells, arrives in cinemas this weekend - and could just be the best British film…
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Aftersun, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born director Charlotte Wells, arrives in cinemas this weekend - and could just be the best British film…
“It’s very much fiction, but rooted in experience and memory,” says the Scottish filmmaker of her debut feature – a tender, harrowing portrait of a father-daughter relationship starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio
This story of an 11-year-old and her father, played by Paul Mescal, is an accomplished debut from its director, Charlotte Wells.
Every moment, every snippet of dialogue, every detail down to the smallest role or the tiniest detail in the background feels like a vibrant slice of real life.
Lindsey Bahr AP – If one were to rank the most difficult adolescent age, 11 may not be the first but it is certainly up there. It is just a horribly, hilariously awkward moment of still being very much a kid but with an agonisingly heightened awareness of all those teenage things that are just […]