Spielplan
SOMMERKINO - OPEN AIR
FALCON LAKE
Der 13-jährige Bastien verbringt die Sommerferien mit seinen Eltern im ländlichen Quebec in einer Hütte am See, um den sich eine alte Legende rankt. Dort lernt er Chloé kennen. Obwohl sie drei Jahre älter ist als er, verbringen sie viel Zeit miteinander und spüren schnell eine besondere Verbindung. Doch um Chloes Herz zu erobern, muss sich Bastien seinen schlimmsten Ängsten stellen.
Kanada, Frankreich 2022 von Charlotte Le Bon, 100 min., franz. Originalfassung mit engl. Untertiteln, FSK 12,
Darsteller:innen: Joseph Engel, Sarah Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual
English version:
Bastien is a French boy on the brink of adolescence who is spending his vacation with his family in a cottage on the shores of Falcon Lake, Canada. He is shy, terribly bored and a bit lost. The lake is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a boy, and Bastien eagerly explores the place to find traces of the spirit. When Chloe, who is a few years older, arrives to spend some time with her family, Bastien’s summer takes a different direction. In this world where parents and children live separately under the same roof, the protagonists play hide and seek with each other until the spirit of the lake arises.
Even though this could be the plot of hundreds of films, few have been able to grasp the melancholy and solitude of a kid saying goodbye to his childhood. The warmth of the summer days and their slow tempo are impressively filmed in vivid colors on rich 16mm film stock. And if the awkwardness of the first attempts at romance is narrated with the same modesty as that of her protagonist, Charlotte Le Bon’s emphatic gaze brings all the oddities of that age to the screen with laughter and sensuality. (Rebecca De Pas)
Canada, France 2022 directed by Charlotte Le Bon, 100 min., fren. original version with english subs, FSK 12,
Cast: Joseph Engel, Sarah Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual
