This Cannes Critics’ Week title had everybody talking on the Croisette. Debut filmmaker Charlotte Wells depicts the personal story of the melancholic and bittersweet resort holiday she took with her father (Paul Mescal) twenty years ago. It’s told in narratively bold fashion. Memories real and imagined fill the screen as she tries to forgive the father she knew with the man she didn't. Their time together is filled silences that reveal a lot of baggage via facial expressions and carefully-chosen words. The use of flashbacks and flash forwards is also inventively conveyed to bring out some kind of truth in a failed father. It’s a small-scaled slowburn that you cannot stop thinking about days after having seen it. A24 picked it up for distribution and there will certainly be a lot of talk about it when it gets its much-deserved release on Friday. [B+]
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