10 · 27 · 22 AFTERSUN: The Melancholy of the Sunset Moves Attendees of 20th FICM Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Laura García A nostalgic memory relived through videos footage will remind Sophie of a holiday she had with her father at the age of 11. A journey through music and complicity. "This film is about denial, all my works deal with and talk about internal experiences," said Charlotte Wells. Charlotte Wells Aftersun (2022), is the feature debut by the Scottish director and screenwriter, which during the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week, was awarded the Jury's French Touch Prize. This sensory memoir was presented during the 20th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), with the presence of Daniela Michel, founder and director of FICM; Alejandro Ramírez, president of the festival; Ava Cahen, general delegate of Critics' Week, and Adele Romanski, producer of the film. In addition, among those attending the screening was director Claire Denis, Special Guest of the 20th FICM. Charlotte Wells' debut film travels through the commotion that takes place after sunset; a sunset that sails to melancholy through the memory of what used to be. "Movies as beautiful as this one, full of such sensitivity, are not seen every day," said Ava Cahen. Wells's fiction is a retelling of her memories, “this film comes from when I started looking at holiday photo albums and I saw my father and myself. I was surprised at how young he looked in those photos and I was approaching exactly the age that he had been when we took them [...] I thought it was an interesting dynamic, to have this father who was very young and the way he interacts with his daughter,” said Charlotte. The subtlety transmitted through this narrative is only a reflection of how difficult it was to work with the screenplay, “some days felt like a defeat, but they were still the happiest moments of my life,” Wells said at the end of the screening.
