Falcon Lakethe first feature film by Quebec actress Charlotte Le Bon, shown Sunday at Directors ’Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, kindly shared the first love of a teenager who was fascinated by a girl more experienced than him .
Bastien (Jospeh Engel), 13 years old, almost 14, spends his summer vacation with his family in Canada, staying with a friend of his mother. This friend’s daughter, Chloé (Sarah Montpetit), 16, pushes her to go beyond her limits to make her happy.
Charlotte Le Bon paints a poignant and realistic picture of this moment in life when we are confused between child’s play and adventure, with Bastien waking up to a summer of alcohol, parties and sexuality.
Hovering Morbidity
This is a story inspired by the comic strip by Bastien Vivès A sisterwhere Charlotte Le Bon added a mystical atmosphere.
I injected something weird into it, with hovering morbidity in the filmhe explained after the screening in Cannes, while exchanging with the public. I came into contact with death at a young age and for me it became familiar, almost uplifting.he added.
The anxiety that reigns in the film is amplified by the landscapes of Quebec, very ambivalent according to him.
At the height of the child
Sa Falcon Lakethe adult characters barely appear in the open shot, faithful to Bastien’s gaze, focused only on Chloé and her friends, who are older than her.
Charlotte Le Bon says she had one thunder for young Joseph Engel, representing Bastien, who was seen The honest person at The crusade by Louis Garrel.
Often, in “teen movies”, boys are unsightly, ungrateful. That’s where I want Bastien to be handsome and have a repartee, so we can understand why Chloé is interested in him.defended Charlotte Le Bon.
I put myself in Bastien as much as in Chloéhe added.
Charlotte Le Bon, who started her acting career Asterix and Obelix : For His Majestyis already behind the camera with a short film, Judith Hotel, also filled with strange. He also directed a music video for walk awaysinger Mottron.
Source: Radio-Canada
