CINEMA APERITIVO: AFTERSUN
(INCL. DRINK AND ANTIPASTI PLATTER)
15 & 30 August 2026
Spend a summer evening drifting through memory, sun-soaked holidays and the ache of growing up as Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun gets the Cinema Aperitivo treatment in our boutique screening room LAB 8½. For two select screenings, your ticket includes a small spritz and an Italian-style antipasti platter, perfectly suited to the film’s hazy mood of family holidays, fleeting moments and emotions that only come into focus years later.
Aftersun by Charlotte Wells is a quietly devastating debut that captures the fleeting beauty of memory and the unspoken bond between a father and daughter. Told through sun-drenched holiday footage and fragments of recollection, the film blurs the line between what was, what’s remembered, and what was never fully understood. Paul Mescal delivers a hauntingly subtle performance as a young father hiding his inner turmoil behind soft smiles and gentle gestures. Wells builds emotion through silence, suggestion, and the aching distance between childhood perception and adult hindsight. Aftersun lingers like a half-forgotten dream—tender, elusive, and profoundly moving.
