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| The IndependentClarisse LoughreyThe mind, too often, moulds memories into prophecies. Colours get dialled up. Emotions solidify. It’s a hard thing to talk about, let alone visualise. That’s why Aftersun, the debut of Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells, is so astounding. She’s captured the uncapturable, finding the words and images to describe a feeling that always seems to sit just beyond our comprehension. |
| The New YorkerAnthony LaneSomehow, Wells retains control of her unstable material, and the result, though intimate, guards its secrets well. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangIf Wells has assembled a note-perfect evocation of a highly specific chapter — the end of a millennium and possibly something else — it’s when she deliberately breaks with realism that this gently aching movie achieves an overwhelming emotional force. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreIt’s a work of masterful and almost unbearable melancholy. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekWhat’s wonderful about Wells’ instincts, and her sense of craftsmanship, is that she never spells anything out for us. Yet we walk away feeling that we know these people, even if we aren’t clear on all the specifics of their lives. |
| EmpireBeth WebbRare and special is a film capable of summoning this much poignancy: a feeling which lingers well beyond the film’s final, achingly moving moments on screen. That Aftersun is the debut from British filmmaker Charlotte Wells only adds to its accomplishment. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAftersun cuts you in two with such emotional intensity, such impressive dramatic force, that I could only sit and fight back the inevitable tears. |
| Little White LiesSavina PetkovaAftersun gives all its love to a past reimagined, as it punctures the present. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ minimalist masterpiece Aftersun draws us into the lives of a father and daughter on a summer vacation in such a natural and gradual way that we feel like we truly know them as the days and nights go by, and we care deeply about them. And yet it still comes as something of a jolt when the final moments of this movie hit us SO hard, like a sledgehammer to the heart. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenAs more of the pieces of the puzzle are revealed, the movie never exploits them. Instead, they fall into place the way memories do. Indeed, the way the best movies do: as revelations that are nevertheless mysterious. |
