A daughter revisits sun-drenched memories of a father, piecing together his hidden melancholy from lingering fragments.
Intimate and nostalgic. A full-attention watch that takes its time. Emotionally it is devastating.
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Nothing past what an R promises: some innuendo or implied sex and no real violence.
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Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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