Aftersun

There are some films that smack you in the face while watching and others that as they sit in your subconscious and stew, seem to impact you in more profound ways every day that passes. Aftersun is one of the rare films made these days that fits into the latter. What Wells has accomplished in her directorial debut is nothing short of astounding. This story and the way it is told is the complete anthesis of the loud, over the top superhero or action focused films that thrive at the box office in modern times. The average moviegoer has gotten so used to that being what “film” is that they will gloss over this masterpiece and call it boring or uneventful and actually requires some thought. No, this is storytelling and filmmaking at it’s finest.