As awards season ramps up, cinebeth breaks down a trio of films receiving a ton of award buzz now screening at Digital Gym Cinema.
Julie has taken her elderly mother Rosalind to a hotel where she used to live. It brings back a flood of memories, some cheery and others not. Swinton is stunning in the dual roles and captures the emotional cadences of a relationship that can sometimes be strained.
It’s a very interior film, in terms of being both physically confined inside a creaky old hotel and psychologically trapped inside the daughter’s emotional space. Hogg endows the film with a seductively off-kilter visual style that conveys Julie's emotional state. But then it completely shifts gears at the end to reveal the twist to the story. It’s a perfect film for those who prefer drama on a very human scale.
Sophie and her dad, Callum , are on a rare vacation together. Callum no longer lives with Frankie and her mom, and he's not a full-time dad. So he takes advantage of this time with Frankie."Aftersun" comes at us like home videos, then drifts into quiet scenes between father and daughter. It serves up both a coming-of-age film and a story about the adult Sophie looking back on these treasured memories to come to terms with her relationship with her estranged father.
It’s a beautifully constructed film made up of fragments of memories. Wells's style recalls the work of fellow Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay . Both filmmakers are visually strong and convey a sense of poetry in their images. So much in their films is in what is not said but shown.Enjoy this trio of films for your consideration at Digital Gym Cinema.
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