Diego Catano,
Hector Herrera,
Daniela Valentine,
Juan Carlos Lara II,
Yemil Sefami
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Former music video director Fernando Eimbcke continues to hone his feature film career with this drama concerning a 14-year-old boy who makes the transition from childhood to adulthood while attemptin... read more
DVD Release Date: November 10, 2009
Stats: 94 reviews
"Lake Tahoe" starts with Juan(Diego Catano) not so much wrapping a car around a telephone pole, as lightly tapping it. While he is unharmed, the car is not. Since this is Sunday, most of the auto repair shops are closed for the day and Don Heber(Hector Herrera) thinks he is try... read more
I know it probably won't win any Oscars, but this is by far my favorite film of 2009 and my favorite international film of the '00 decade.
So different from the usual fare that it might have arrived from another galaxy. Full Review
Coming down from the Saturday sugar rush of his 2006 comedy Duck Season, Mexican auteur Fernando Eimbcke's lovely, Yucatán-set dramedy drifts by on a similar deadpan wave of static vignettes and linge... Full Review
It ultimately sags under the weight of its bloated silences and stagnant story line. Full Review
[Lake Tahoe is] a small, calm movie that will take you into another world... Full Review
Eimbcke's Jarmusch-ian comedy is laced with something stronger. Full Review
An offbeat droll black comedy that worked for me in the Zen way it made its seemingly simple tale poignant and compelling in such a unique way. Full Review
If you're patient -- the beautifully composed wide-angle camerawork helps -- the reason for the protagonist's down-in-the-mouth behavior emerges, and finally from the languor comes a sweet little payoff. Full Review
Eimbcke's world -- sun-baked and lazy and almost devoid of activity or adults -- may seem aimless and pointless, but he manages a delightfully complete wrap-up and payoff. Full Review
Fortunately, Eimbcke's laconic if fanciful storytelling strengths ring more true than his somewhat artificial and hackneyed visual style, which includes a penchant for lengthy wide-angle shots that ma... Full Review
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