A MOViE Date with Edward Lam: Close + Aftersun

So near to the cinema and yet so far from each other
– Edward Lam invites you for a MOViE date double bill

Close
The intense friendship between two thirteen-year-old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Leo approaches Sophie, Remi's mother. Close is a film about friendship and responsibility.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, Lukas Dhont’s follow-up to Girl went on to garner nominations for Academy Award for Best International Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Picture – Non-English Language.

Aftersun
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eyes Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.

Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film, the winner of the French Touch Jury Prize at the Cannes 2022 Critics’ Week, received widespread critical acclaim. It picked up seven awards in British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. It also won the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer at the 76th BAFTA Awards and was named the best film of the year by Sight and Sound, Indiewire, The Guardian, and The New York Times. The performance of Paul Mescal earned him a nomination for Best Actor at the 95th Academy Awards.

Watching a double bill at the cinema exemplifies the art of self-romance. Would you spare an afternoon to arrange a lovey-dovey MOViE date with yourself?

Rundown (For reference only, all sharing session is in Cantonese)
14:00 – 14:10 Introduction by Edward Lam
14:10 – 15:55 Screening: Close
15:55 – 16:10 Sharing by Edward Lam
16:10 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 16:40 Introduction by Edward Lam
16:40 – 18:21 Screening: Aftersun
18:21 – 18:41 Sharing by Edward Lam