Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Aftersun”

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This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie Aftersun, written and directed by Charlotte Wells.

Plot summary: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t…

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Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.

Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.