Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
Direction
Wells' first feature? Unhinged levels of confidence.
Cinematography
35mm vacation warmth hiding something breaking underneath.
Acting
Paul Mescal's shoulder blades alone deserve awards.
Director
Charlotte Wells
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wells based this on her own Turkish holidays with her father; the rug is literally her family's. The autobiographical weight explains why it feels like trespassing on someone else's grief.
The aspect ratio subtly shifts between memory and present—Wells shot 4:3 camcorder footage, then 1.66:1 for the 'real' past, boxing Calum in frames he can't escape.
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