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Falcon Lake
Film poster
Directed by	Charlotte Le Bon
Screenplay by	François Choquet Charlotte Le Bon Bastien Vivès
Based on	Une sœur by Bastien Vivès
Produced by	Sylvain Corbeil Nancy Grant
Starring	Joseph Engel Sara Montpetit Karine Gonthier-Hyndman Monia Chokri
Cinematography	Kristof Brandl
Edited by	Julie Lena
Music by	Klô Pelgag Shida Shahabi
Production companies	Cinefrance Ley Line Entertainment Sons of Manual
Distributed by	Sphere Films (Canada) Tandem (France)
Release date	May 18, 2022 (2022-05-18) (Cannes)
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	Canada France
Languages	French English
Box office	$138,879

Falcon Lake is a 2022 coming-of-age drama film, directed and co-written by Charlotte Le Bon. Adapted from the graphic novel Une sœur [fr] by Bastien Vivès, the film stars Joseph Engel as Bastien, a 13-year-old boy from Paris, France, on a family vacation in Quebec, where he meets and develops a relationship with Chloé (Sara Montpetit), the 16-year-old daughter of his mother's friend Louise (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman).

The cast also includes Monia Chokri as Bastien's mother Violette, as well as Jeff Roop, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, and Thomas Laperrière in supporting roles.

The film was shot in mid-2021 in and around Gore, Quebec during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The film debuted in the Director's Fortnight program at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2022. It had its Canadian premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot

Shy 13-year-old Bastien and his family are staying at a friend's lake cottage in Quebec, where Bastien meets the bold 16-year-old Chloé. She is a fan of folklore and local legends and tells Bastien a ghost is haunting the nearby lake. The two teens quickly bond.

Cast

• Joseph Engel as Bastien
• Sara Montpetit as Chloé
• Monia Chokri as Violette
• Arthur Igual [fr] as Romain
• Karine Gonthier-Hyndman as Louise
• Anthony Therrien as Oliver
• Pierre-Luc Lafontaine [fr] as Stan

Critical response

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Falcon Lake holds an approval rating of 94% based on 48 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Moody, sensitive, and subtly layered, Falcon Lake captures the intoxicating horror of young love." However, online magazine Slant commented that "the inadvertent effect of the brooding, almost overbearing gloom that shrouds Falcon Lake is that it manages to sap the life out of its initially carefree depiction of young people’s emotional lives".

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 71 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Awards

References

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5. Marie-Catherine Goudreau, "Falcon Lake : Le premier long-métrage de Charlotte Le Bon". Journal Accès, August 10, 2021.
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11. Noel Ransome, "‘Riceboy Sleeps’ and ‘Until Branches Bend’ win top film prizes at VIFF". Toronto Star, October 7, 2022.
12. Fabien Lemercier, "Saint Omer and Pacifiction receive the Louis-Delluc prize ex-aequo". Cineuropa, 1 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
13. Jean-Louis Bordeleau, "Le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois s’élargit et dévoile ses finalistes". Le Devoir, January 19, 2023.
14. Maxime Demers, "Falcon Lake: Charlotte Le Bon en lice pour un prix César". Le Journal de Montréal, January 25, 2023.
15. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations". Films du Québec, February 22, 2023.
16. "Québec Cinéma dévoile les finalistes aux PRIX IRIS 2023". CTVM, November 14, 2023.

External links

• Falcon Lake at IMDb

• 2022 films
• Canadian coming-of-age drama films
• French coming-of-age drama films
• Films shot in Quebec
• Films set in Quebec
• Films based on French comics
• Quebec films
• 2022 drama films
• English-language Canadian films
• French-language Canadian films
• 2020s Canadian films
• 2020s French films
• Best First Feature Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
• Louis Delluc Prize winners