Country: Canada, France, Armenia
Year: 2022
Duration: 100'
Bastien and Chloé spend their summer vacation with their families at a lake cabin in Quebec, haunted by a ghost legend. Despite the age gap between them, the two teenagers form a singular bond. Ready to overcome his worst fears to earn a place in Chloé’s heart, the holiday becomes a turbulent pivotal moment for the young boy.
Biography
film director
Charlotte Le Bon
(Canada) grew up in Quebec before moving to Paris. She worked as an actress with French directors such as Michel Gondry and Jalil Lespert. In the US, she shot films with Lasse Hallström, Robert Zemeckis and Sean Ellis. Charlotte is an artist exploring her taste for strangeness through paintings, drawings and lithographs. Her passion for genre films led her to write and direct Judith Hotel, a short film presented at Cannes in 2018. Falcon Lake is her first feature film and premiered in Directors Fortnight in Cannes.
FILMOGRAFIA
Judith Hotel (2018), Mottron, Walk Away (videoclip, 2022), Falcon Lake (2022).
Declaration
film director
“The film is inspired by the comic book Un soeur by Bastien Vivès. It’s Jalil Lespert, actor, filmmaker and friend, who gifted it to me. He simply told me: ‘I think this is for you and if you like it, I will help co-produce it as your first feature film.’ He was right. I found it obvious that this very sensitive and subtle story had immense cinematic potential. At first, even Bastien Vivès was surprised by the idea of adapting it. He was convinced that the story couldn’t be translated to the screen. For me, the real challenge was to make the story my own, for it to be a personal piece. Thanks to the collaboration with François Choquet on the script, we succeeded in giving it a new identity that was satisfying. It’s a loose adaptation.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Charlotte Le Bon. STORY: dal graphic novel Une soeur di Bastien Vivès. SCREENPLAY: Charlotte Le Bon, François Choquet. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kristof Brandl. FILM EDITING: Julie Léna. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alex Hercule Desjardins. COSTUME DESIGN: Gabrielle Lauzier. MUSIC: Shida Shahabi. SOUND: Stephen de Oliveira, Séverin Favriau, Stéphane Thiébaut. CAST: Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Thomas Laperrière, Anthony Therrien, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Lévi Doré, Jeff Roop. PRODUCTION: Cinéfrance Studios, Metafilms, Onzecinq.
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