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    Review: 'Aftersun,' one of the year's great debut films, is a piercing father-daughter story

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Oct 21, 2022 4 minutes
    Frankie Corio, left, and Paul Mescal in the movie“ Aftersun.”.

    Something odd happened to me during a recent press screening of "Aftersun," a beautifully sculpted and quietly shattering first feature from the Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells. While jotting down a few stray thoughts and details, I turned a page in my notebook and came across a drawing, something my 6-year-old daughter had doodled in bright-orange crayon. That wasn't odd in and of itself; notebooks get passed around our house like potato-chip bags. But it was the first time the discovery of her handiwork, usually a cute and funny mid-screening distraction, had the effect of nudging me closer to the two characters in front of me — who, it may not surprise you to learn, are a girl and her father.

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