Falcon Lake
by Charlotte Le Bon
Director's Fortnight 2022
Out of Competition 2022
Official synopsis
A story of love and ghosts.
The programmer’s eye
The first feature film by Charlotte Le Bon, whom the audience knows as a talented actress, “Falcon Lake” depicts the discovery of both sexual and metaphysical desire at teenagehood. Set around a lake in the Laurentians, this loose adaptation of comic book author Bastien Vivès’s “A Sister” delves into the otherness of encounters, and love-related instinctive gestures that appear as familiar ghosts. “Falcon Lake” prolongs the beautiful summer afternoon offered by teenagehood, i.e. the ever mysterious matrix of the essential gestures that awaken us to life. And to its wettest part: sexuality.
Natacha Seweryn
Biography and Filmography
Charlotte Le Bon grew up in Quebec before moving to Paris. She worked as an actress with directors such as Michel Gondry - “Mood Indigo” (2013) - and Jalil Lespert for “In the Shadow of Iris” (2016). She then went on to work in the United States with Lasse Hallström, Robert Zemeckis and Sean Ellis - in “The Hundred-Foot Journey” (2014), “The Walk” (2015) and “Anthropoid” (2016) respectively. Charlotte Le Bon is a visual artist who explores strangeness through painting, drawing and lithography. An adept of genre cinema, she wrote and directed the short film “Judith Hotel”, which was presented in Cannes in 2018. “Falcon Lake” (2022) is her first feature film.
2022 : FALCON LAKE - Charlotte Le Bon - Director and Screenwriter
2018 : JUDITH HOTEL (SHORT) - Charlotte Le Bon - Director and Screenwriter
Charlotte Le Bon, François Choquet
Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri…
Cinéfrance Studios, Metafilms, Onzecinq
Tandem
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by Charlotte Le Bon
Charlotte Le Bon grew up in Quebec before moving to Paris. She worked as an actress with directors such as Michel Gondry - “Mood Indigo” (2013) - and Jalil Lespert for “In the Shadow of Iris” (2016). She then went on to work in the United States with Lasse Hallström, Robert Zemeckis and Sean Ellis - in “The Hundred-Foot Journey” (2014), “The Walk” (2015) and “Anthropoid” (2016) respectively. Charlotte Le Bon is a visual artist who explores strangeness through painting, drawing and lithography. An adept of genre cinema, she wrote and directed the short film “Judith Hotel”, which was presented in Cannes in 2018. “Falcon Lake” (2022) is her first feature film.
2022 : FALCON LAKE - Charlotte Le Bon - Director and Screenwriter
2018 : JUDITH HOTEL (SHORT) - Charlotte Le Bon - Director and Screenwriter