fALCON LAKE
Type: bildungsroman ✦✦✦
Director: Charlotte Le Bon. With Joseph Engel, Sarah Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual
Bastien, a Parisian on vacation in Quebec with his little brother and parents, meets the enigmatic Chloédaughter of a friend of the mother, three years older.
Freely adapted from the graphic novel by Bastien Vivès, A sister (set in Brittany), the first film by actress and artist Charlotte Le Bon screened at the Cannes Fortnight in 2022, takes a look at adolescence where shyness, rebellion anxiety, discovery of sensuality flirt with the fantastic of a ghost story.
Sarah Montpetit and Joseph Engel in the film “Falkon Lake”
The one between Chloé and Bastien is a fateful encounter between creatures that look alike. With all the dangers that this entails. A very promising debut.
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