Passes the Bechdel test

Aftersun

Name: Aftersun
Released: 2022

2022. Directed by Charlotte Wells, written by Charlotte Wells.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 140.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye 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, in Charlotte Wells' superb and searingly emotional debut film.

Released: 18 Nov 2022
Genres: Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.6 / 10
Metascore: 95 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 98 wins & 182 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Sophie 258 lines, woman
Calum 249 lines, man
Olly 21 lines, man
Michael 19 lines, man
Laura 16 lines, woman
Onur 14 lines
Belinda 10 lines, woman
Maxine 9 lines
Woman 9 lines, woman
Toby 7 lines

Full cast, 22 people

Paul Mescal as Calum
Frankie Corio as Sophie
Brooklyn Toulson as Michael
Celia Rowlson-Hall as Adult Sophie
Sally Messham as Belinda
Ayşe Parlak as Teen Girl 1
Sophia Lamanova as Teen Girl 2
Spike Fearn as Olly
Harry Perdios as Toby
Frank Corio as Ocean Park Father
Ruby Thompson as Laura
Ethan James Smith as Scott
Onur Ekşioğlu as Onur
Cafer Karahan as Carpet Salesman
Kayleigh Coleman as Jane
John Stuifzand as Resort Entertainer
Tyler Mutlu as Ocean Park Hotel Tour Rep
Kieran Burton as Alex
Nijat Gachayev as Turk Hotel Receptionist
Sarah Makharine as Adult Sophie's Partner
Erol Cengizalp as Man with Camera
Djamel Turner as Raver (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 140

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	10	5
7 to 9	6	4
10 to 12	1	6
13 to 15	0	0
16 to 18	1	3
19 to 21	19	18
22 to 24	14	16
25 to 27	4	1
28 to 30	10	2
31 to 33	8	14
34 to 36	11	13
37 to 39	4	20
40 to 42	10	10
43 to 45	9	12
46 to 48	11	9
49 to 51	12	15
52 to 54	2	1
55 to 57	7	0
58 to 60	15	19
61 to 63	4	7
64 to 66	11	11
67 to 69	11	16
70 to 72	9	7
73 to 75	1	0
76 to 78	19	8
79 to 81	4	6
82 to 84	0	0
85 to 87	0	0
88 to 90	9	10
91 to 93	14	15
94 to 96	17	7
97 to 99	8	9
100 to 102	1	0
103 to 105	1	0
106 to 108	4	0
109 to 111	4	10
112 to 114	8	7
115 to 117	14	17
118 to 120	1	0
121 to 123	4	5
124 to 126	5	4
127 to 129	0	0
130 to 132	2	1
133 to 135	0	0
136 to 138	0	0
139 to 140	0	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

BELINDA: Hiya everyone. My name’s Belinda - I’ll be your tour rep for the next week or two. SOPHIE: They’re dead anyway.

LAURA: Fanta lemon, please. SOPHIE: What’s that?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 50 are women's.

305 lines from women, 308 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 5 men in the cast. 3 women and 4 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 16 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 50% of the words (2,210), men 50% (2,218).

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

5 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 44% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Charlotte Wells (woman)
Written by: Charlotte Wells (woman)
Produced by: Adele Romanski (woman), Barry Jenkins (man), Mark Ceryak (man), Amy Jackson (woman)
Shot by: Gregory Oke (man)
Edited by: Blair McClendon (man)
Music by: Oliver Coates (man)
Production design by: Billur Turan (gender not listed)
Costumes by: Frank Gallacher (man)
Cast by: Lucy Pardee (woman)