Country: Angola
Year: 2008
Duration: 85'
Juan is trying to escape from a home full of grief. Driving till the “A few months after my father’s death I crashed the only car we owned
outskirts of town, he crashes his family car against a telegraph pole.
On his search for somebody who can help him repair his car, he meets
Don Heber, an old mechanic who lives with his dog. Don promises to
fix the car as soon as possible but he asks him to go and find the spare
part. This is how Juan comes into Lucia at the “Refaccionaria Oriente”,
a car accessories shop, which this young mother and aspiring punk
singer runs without knowing anything about cars. The two wait for
David, a teenage mechanic obsessed with martial arts and Kung Fu
philosophy.
in the family. My mother thought it had been simply an accident, but
I disagreed. Lake Tahoe is an attempt to understand the reasons which
brought me to such an absurd and, at the same time, deeply human
action.”
Biography
film director
Fernando Eimbcke
Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico City, Mexico, 1970) graduated in 1996 from the Film Studies Center of the Universidad nacional autónoma de Mexico. In 2003, he was a guest of the Berlinale Talent Campus, where he made the short The Look of Love, and in 2004 he wrote and directed his first feature film, Temporada de patos, selected for the Semaine de la critique in Cannes. In 2008, his movie Lake Tahoe won the FIPRESCI Award and the Alfred Bauer Award at the Berlinale and participated at the 21st Torino Film Festival. He next directed the short La Bienvenida (2010), an episode of the film anthology Revolución.
FILMOGRAFIA
Disculpe las molestias (cm, 1993), Alcanzar una estrella (cm, 1993), ¿Perdón? (cm, 1994), No todo es permanente (cm, 1995), La suerte de la fea… a la bonita no le importa (cm, 2002), No sea malito (cm, 2003), The Look of Love (cm, 2003), Temporada de patos (2004), Adiós a las trampas (cm, 2005), Perro que ladra (cm, 2005), Lake Tahoe (Sul lago Tahoe, 2008), Revolución (ep. La Bienvenida, cm, 2010), Club Sandwich (2013).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Fernando Eimbcke
sceneggiatura/screenplay Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch
fotografia/cinematography Alexis Zabé
montaggio/film editing Mariana Rodríguez
scenografia/ production design Diana Quiroz
costumi/costume design Mariana Watson
suono/sound Lena Esquenazi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Diego Cataño (Juan), Hector Herrera (Don Heber), Daniela Valentine (Lucia), Juan Carlos Lara (David), Yemil Sefam (Joaquín)
produttore/producer Christian Valdelièvre
produzione/production Cinepantera
distribuzione/distribution, Archibald Enterprise Film
vendita all’estero/world sales Funny Ballons
sceneggiatura/screenplay Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch
fotografia/cinematography Alexis Zabé
montaggio/film editing Mariana Rodríguez
scenografia/ production design Diana Quiroz
costumi/costume design Mariana Watson
suono/sound Lena Esquenazi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Diego Cataño (Juan), Hector Herrera (Don Heber), Daniela Valentine (Lucia), Juan Carlos Lara (David), Yemil Sefam (Joaquín)
produttore/producer Christian Valdelièvre
produzione/production Cinepantera
distribuzione/distribution, Archibald Enterprise Film
vendita all’estero/world sales Funny Ballons