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By Jason Di Rosso for The Screen Show

Paul Mescal delivers an Oscar nominated performance in Aftersun, as a single dad struggling to hide his depression from his daughter

Mescal nabbed a unexpected Oscar nomination for best actor for Aftersun. (Supplied: Kismet/Sarah Makharine)

There's a time in early middle age when, as adults, we reflect back on moments in our childhood and realise that our parents were barely coping. Or perhaps not coping at all. Aftersun is a film about such a realisation, framed as a kind of extended flashback.

It begins with footage from a camcorder, shot by 11-year-old Scottish girl Sophie, holidaying with her father Calum in a Turkish seaside resort.

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