Naman Ramachandran New York-based Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells’ feature debut “Aftersun,” premiering at Cannes Critics’ Week, aims to achieve a balance of joy and melancholia in equal measure.Framed as a look back at a father-daughter holiday at a Turkish resort in the late 1990s, with occasional mini DV footage adding to the period texture, the film is an ode to nostalgia with hints of something far darker.Wells’ first short, “Tuesday” (2015), was about the loss of her father, which happened when she was a teenager. “I wanted to explore a different period in that relationship, like a young father and his daughter on holiday.
Even just visually having a young parent, like a young man and his daughter, it just felt like it could be something interesting and fun and compelling,” Wells told Variety.
The script began in a different form in that it was more conventional and plot-driven, and the more she worked on it, it became increasingly personal, says Wells. “It’s not autobiographical, per se, but I think of it as being emotionally autobiographical.
And, over the course of writing, I got more and more of myself into both characters. And it just evolved from there,” Wells said.Though the film is set in the late 1990s, the period of time she grew up in and had the most to draw from, Wells was careful not to be too specific about the time frame and the cultural moments of those years. “It felt like it would hurt the environment if I was being hyper specific,” Wells said.
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