Review of Aftersun (2022) by Ambleredward — 26 Jan 2023

I thought this was a hugely overrated film. The critics are considering the flaws- unexplained and under-explained plot points as virtues and deft art. The subject matter and the location spots were cinematic, but too much of the canvas was left blank for the audience.

How can you have a framing motif of the father dancing amid strobe lights and yet never reveal the import? How can the critics and the audience infer anything at all about the adult Sophie when nothing subsequent to the airport drop-off is shown? Are we to believe that like Morrissey signing " I've seen this happening in other people's lives, now it's happening in mine" that turning 30 is supposed to be a haunting spectre that will cast existential doom on every generation? I don't know.