Day 4: Live from Cannes: Loss from a teenager’s POV in ‘Lake Tahoe’

My plunge in Latin American cinema continued with a Mexican coming-of-age film that played at Berlin Film Festival and walked away with top honors there. FIPRESCI’s “Revelation of the Year” is a showcase screening at Cannes’ Critic’s Week every year focusing on a film the organization feels deserves more attention – and not surprisingly, Fernando Eimbcke‘s second feature entitled Lake
Tahoe will be among my favorite films of the year. Slowly paced, and etched in a typical Mexican town, the compositions include the classic, non-moving camera, their isn’t much dialogue but as this film progresses it releases an underlying message about coping with loss at a tender age where we might not have the faculties to deal with such a traumatic event, especially if one is left to fiend for themselves. Fernando Eimbcke was on hand to answer some questions during the Q and A. [Note: Full review coming soon]