Tuesday

After watching borderlands, a film that overexplains everything in awful detail, making it a painstaking 1 hour and 40 watch. This film does the exact opposite. The fact Charlotte Wells is able to give us a simple yet compelling story, only within a 10 minute runtime, but does so with very little dialogue too is just fucking impeccable. I may have bias as Aftersun is my favourite film of all time, but it's just the fact Well's is able to do this in such a thought provoking way, in which I and many people can relate to. I recently lost my dad and the fact she can capture a stage within the grieving process allows me to reflect myself and my experience. I haven't been able to really mull on my own experiences in how I lost my father, as assignments and uni have taken over my life for the past month or two. It was only until my father's funeral I've been able to think and reflect, and this film brought more out of me than ever. I truly do think Charlotte Wells is one of the most compelling and brilliant directors of not only of our generation, but ever and I hope she is able to keep this work up, as it's really gotten me excited for the future of film and filmaking.