When a woman looks back on a magical last childhood trip to Turkey with her young father, recorded and imagined memories crash headlong into the present, fusing and fracturing how she remembers him, and herself. In this startling debut, Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells sifts for clues from all angles, relying less on plot than on an emotional register that feels achingly real. NORMAL PEOPLE’s Paul Mescal is mesmerizing as the loving, devoted father who valiantly keeps his melancholy simmering just beneath the surface, in a place his daughter (Frankie Corio and Celia Rowlson-Hall) isn’t sure she will ever understand.
