Aftersun

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I really need to keep an eye at what’s on at the South Bank. I’m an ICA Red Member but I’m not half sick of their freezing cold cinemas, even if it is only 20 quid a month for unlimited films

PLUS FREE PNEUMONIA
 
I'm going to watch Tarkovsky's Stalker at the IMAX next week :disco:

They still have the top 50 films OF ALL TIME to show over the next 8 weeks, nothing as EXCRUCIATINGLY EXQUISITE as a Tarr film but some GEMS still, have a look.
 
The Unholy Ghost said:
Hey ho :(:(:(
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Also I have one ticket to watch DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST on Wednesday 16th Feb at 6.20pm and I can't make it anymore (I have a HOT DATE with my MASSEUR :disco: )

If anyone wants it for free, PM me!
 
Peekaboo said:
I'm going to watch Tarkovsky's Stalker at the IMAX next week :disco:

They still have the top 50 films OF ALL TIME to show over the next 8 weeks, nothing as EXCRUCIATINGLY EXQUISITE as a Tarr film but some GEMS still, have a look.
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Are you sure it’s next week and not last? :tongueout:
 
I felt this was very fragile and very tense at the same time. beautiful stuff. also now has me thinking about my dad and me, he was 20 when he got me too. just a grown up kid!
 
Finally got to see this having heard it was good but knowing nothing about it.

It utterly devastated me. I couldn’t move at the credits and I think I’m going to struggle to sleep tonight, it affected me that much,

Firstly, the film itself was exquisitely shot. It reminded me in places of the recent Saint Etienne film, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, which fits the time period as well. I loved the cinematography and the location.

And the acting was sublime. Yes, as said, Sophie was marvellous, but Paul Mescal was incredible. I wish so many people would see this because of the Oscar nomination and somehow he would win. Because he deserves everything. The sheer fucking layers that came apart as the film went on. That (horrible) scene where he managed to act the fuck out of everything just using his back. The way he managed to convey love, sadness, depression and utter resignation in a single glance. It was without doubt one of my favourite performances in a long long time.

Regular readers will know I rarely do this, but an unreserved 10. Just astounding.
 
Interestingly, the Kermode review hits the nail on the head in what I meant about it reminding me of the last Saint Etienne film and album, both of which are constructed around memory and distorted recollection of a time past. He puts it so much better than I:

Yet Aftersun is constructed as a very personal recollection, filtered through a haze of memory and imagination by the now-adult Sophie (Celia Rowlson-Hall) looking back on things she didn’t really understand at the time. That tension between fact and fiction – between recorded and remembered events – draws us deep into the drama, causing us to examine every frame as if searching for clues to a hidden truth that remains tantalisingly elusive.
 
The way the 2025 JOHN LEWIS CHRISTMAS AD reminded me of this?!

 
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