Aftersun (2022)

This is really something as movies go. The whole movie is about a trip that 11 year old Sophie took with her father Calum to an all inclusive resort in Turkey. There's an uneasiness about this movie, but the source of it is hard to place, or even name, particularly since Calum and Sophie are enjoying their vacation, overall. The occasional friction is of the normal parent-child variety, nothing too toxic, nothing too traumatic. There is something lurking just below the surface though, and it is rare to see this captured in a film. Sophie is perceptive, and senses things, even if she can't put it into words. She perceives more than her father thinks she does. She perceive Calum’s existential anxiety and still is able to have a great time making a new friend at the arcade. The multi-level awareness is not in the dialogue, but it's there in the film's gentle rhythms. It is movie where you feel like you are in it, ease dropping on these two and their relationship.