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Jun 4, 2022 · Coming-of-age movies are usually, like growing up itself, some combination of funny, sad, rueful, awkward or frightening, but rarely are they so successfully all those things at once as in ...
Jun 20, 2023 · Most of Falcon Lake follows the usual coming-of-age story beats. But what makes this film stand out among the pack is Le Bon’s direction, cinematographer Brandl’s use of shadow, and Shahabi ...
- Mary Beth Mcandrews
May 22, 2022 · This tragedy somewhat overrides the lasting feeling from “ Falcon Lake,” rounding off the film in darkness rather than the sweet longing that carried much of the narrative before. Still, this is a controlled and impressive debut from Le Bon that hints at talent to come and offers a warm, if not always unique, approach to the growing pains ...
- Caitlin Quinlan
May 27, 2022 · The final act delivers the first chills of disappointment in love, of alienation and of the coming change in seasons and maturation. The tonal shift is at once surprising and inevitable. Falcon Lake proves an incredibly strong debut. Young heartbreaking summer loving might be an old song but here it is sung in a new and beguiling way.
Jun 2, 2023 · By the time the film’s parallel genres finally intersect in a quiet gasp of a closing sequence, “Falcon Lake,” which had its 2022 premiere at Cannes’ prestigious Directors Fortnight, has ...
Jun 2, 2023 · Charlotte Le Bon's directorial debut feels like a perverse love child of "Licorice Pizza" and "Call Me By Your Name." By Christian Zilko. June 2, 2023 4:00 pm. "Falcon Lake". Courtesy of Yellow ...
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Jun 3, 2023 · Part coming-of-age tale, part ghost story, Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake stands out among its “teenager finds himself over the course of an idyllic summer in the country” counterparts by consistently subverting the tropes of the subgenre. Set in the French countryside, the film follows 13-year-old Bastien (Joseph Engel), who is on holiday for the summer at his family’s vacation home ...
