Aftersun: Tarragona poster
Origin

Aftersun

Tarragona

Rating

G

Runtime

the first eighteen years

Year

90s

Genre

Coming-of-age

A quiet opening act the rest of the filmography keeps flashing back to. Underrated on first watch.
★★★★La Gaseta de TarracoThe Management
Synopsis

The 1990s, a small city by the sea. Sandra grows up between the beach, her mother's kitchen, and two thousand years of Roman ruins she treats as playground equipment.

Eighteen years of a perfectly good life, and two permanent souvenirs: the itch to leave, and the instinct to return. Every other film in the programme is those two arguing.

What the Critics Say

★★★★★
“Eighteen years of setup. The payoff is every other film.”

La Gaseta de Tarraco

The Usher

★★★★★
“The mother's cooking deserves its own spin-off.”

La Gaseta de Tarraco

Table for One

Fine

The town she couldn't wait to leave, and can't stop coming back to.