FALCON LAKE
Friday, October 14 – Truffaut Theatre – 4:00 pm
(Screening ends at 5:40 pm)
FICTION / DRAMA
WORLD CINEMA CO-PRODUCED BY FRANCE
Presented in Association with:
Memento Films
FACF
Women in Film
West Coast Premiere | France, Canada | 2022 | Drama | 100 min | In English & French with English subtitles
Directed by: Charlotte Le Bon
Written by: Charlotte Le Bon, François Choquet, Karim Boucherka
Based on the Book by: Bastien Vivès
Produced by: Julien Deris & David Gauquié (Cinéfrance Studios), Nancy Grant & Sylvain Corbeil (Metafilms), Jalil Laspert (Onzecinq), Dany Boon (Les Productions du Ch’Timi)
Cinematography: Kristof Brandl
Film Editing: Julie Lena
Original Score: Shida Shahabi
Cast: Joseph Engel (Bastien), Sarah Montpetit (Chloé), Monia Chokri (Violette), Arthur Igual (Romain), Karine Gonthier-Hyndman (Louise), Anthony Therrien (Oliver), Pierre-Luc Lafontaine (Stan)
International Sales: Memento Films
Charlotte Le Bon‘s beguiling, mischievous feature directorial debut begins with the creepy image of a young woman’s lifeless body floating face-down in the middle of a glimmering lake at dawn. But Falcon Lake is more sweet coming-of-age story than horror film… albeit one with a decidedly ghoulish streak. Adapted from Bastien Vivès’s graphic novel, A Sister, the story follows two families sharing a summer cottage on a lake in Quebec. Thirteen-year-old Bastien’s family has come from Paris. Sixteen-year-old Chloé and her mother are Canadian. And the lake in question is purportedly haunted by a ghost. A story of intense puppy love, filled with the requisite awkward teenage insecurities and stumbling awakenings of desire, as well as razor-sharp observations and some unexpectedly chilling surprises, Falcon Lake is a poignant, astonishingly assured first feature.
Actor-turned-director Charlotte Le Bon was born in Montreal. After studying visual arts, she began modelling at 16, eventually becoming “Miss Météo” on Le Grand Journal on Canal+ in France, doing original comedy skits disguised as daily weather reports. She made her big-screen debut in the French comedy Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012), followed by Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo (2013). In 2015, she co-starred in Jailil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent, playing the designer’s muse Victoire Doutreleau, which earned her a César Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Perfectly bilingual, she has performed in such films as Lasse Hallström’s romantic comedy The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk (2015), and dubbed both the French and French-Canadian voices of Joy in the animated Pixar film Inside Out (2015). She appeared in six films in 2016: The Take, Arctic Heart, Anthropoid, Realive, The Promise, and In the Shadow of Iris. Le Bon wrote and directed her first short, Judith Hotel (2018), which premiered in Cannes. Falcon Lake, her first feature, bowed in the Director’s Fortnight section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and was recently honored with the d’Ornano-Valenti Prize in Deauville, an award supported by the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
