“French-Canadian actor Charlotte Le Bon makes a bold directorial debut with this haunting coming-of-age romance set during a summer vacation... This eerie, dreamy story of growing pains recounts the experiences of nearly-14-year-old Bastien (Joseph Engel), an awkward, earnest teenager who falls for the slightly older and more worldly Chloé (Sara Monpetit) while their families are vacationing in a lakeside cabin in rural Quebec. But it’s not just young love that’s in the air: something ghostly seems to be haunting the body of water and the surrounding forest” (Melbourne International Film Festival 2022)
FURTHER REVIEW
"So much less schematic than many similar tales of the pain and elation of first love, for all the overt stylisation, Falcon Lake really comes alive in the interactions between these two eccentric, interesting young people... Turns out, it’s not quite true to say there are no ghosts in Falcon Lake when, despite its lightness and playful humour, so much here is ghostly. From the cold shimmer of a lake that conceals as much as it invites, to the bright skies that seem edged in dusk even at noon, everything in this immensely promising, superbly crafted debut, is haunted" (Jessica Kiang, Variety)
Finally, watch critic Melissa DiMarco interview Director Charlotte Le Bon.
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