Real, touching, tender, with a great photo. Here’s how critics and audiences describe Charlotte Wells’ directorial debut:after the sun“.

The award-winning film tells the story of 30-year-old Callum (played superbly by Paul Mescal), a young divorced father and his young daughter Sophie (Frankie Corio) as they go on holiday to Turkey. During the days they spend together, their relationships, lives, and traumas begin to unravel. This memory will forever remain in the soul of the already adult Sophie. This trip will be decisive for both of them.

In a highly acclaimed film that is expected to win even more awards in the coming months, Wells (Circles, Blue Christmas) captures the transition to adolescence, talks about the memories of our lives and their importance, about everything that is engraved in us and suddenly they come to the surface.

Is “After the Sun” a true story?

The answer is yes, it is partly based on real facts. Wells reportedly drew inspiration for the coming-of-age story from her own childhood experiences, but not entirely.

In a relatively recent interview with the Variety website, she said that while her short film Tuesday (2015) focuses on everyday life after her father’s death when she was a teenager, After the Sun captures a different phase of the relationship. daughter.

“I wanted to explore a different time period in this relationship, like a young father and his young daughter on vacation. “I found the image of a young man and a little girl to be interesting, fun and powerful,” said Wells.

He added: “It’s not autobiographical, but I find it instinctively autobiographical. And while writing the script, I put more elements of myself into both characters. That’s where the story developed.”

Regarding the development of Aftersun, she said, “I spent so much time making it and there was always a personal element to the characters. There was never a shortage of it, I just think that the length of time it took to write the script and the fact that I let the memories and stories from my childhood form the first skeleton of the structure was a process of searching for my past. And all this was reflected on paper.

Regarding the development of Aftersun, she said, “I spent so much time making it and there was always a personal element to the characters. There was never a shortage of it, I just think that the length of the script and the fact that I let the memories and stories from my childhood form the first skeleton of the structure was a process of searching for my past. And it all ended up on paper”, also stating that he has a lot of experience that he can use in stories for films.

According to Variety