Movie No. 90 (2016): LAKE TAHOE
Lake Tahoe (2009)
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Cast: Diego Catano, Juan Carlos Lara III, Daniela Valentine, Yemil Sefami
In Spanish, with English subtitles
This a "one-day-in-the-life-of" kind of movie. Juan, a teenager, in an attempt to escape "something," takes the car his father gave him and drives aimlessly. He accidentally crashes it into a post in the outskirts of town. In the next 45 minutes, we see him search for help. We see him meet eccentric characters: a paranoid, old mechanic and his dog; a punk, teenage mother and her baby; and a Kung-Fu-obsessed teenage auto mechanic. Dealing with these characters makes his day.
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Cast: Diego Catano, Juan Carlos Lara III, Daniela Valentine, Yemil Sefami
In Spanish, with English subtitles
This a "one-day-in-the-life-of" kind of movie. Juan, a teenager, in an attempt to escape "something," takes the car his father gave him and drives aimlessly. He accidentally crashes it into a post in the outskirts of town. In the next 45 minutes, we see him search for help. We see him meet eccentric characters: a paranoid, old mechanic and his dog; a punk, teenage mother and her baby; and a Kung-Fu-obsessed teenage auto mechanic. Dealing with these characters makes his day.
Some can easily dismiss the movie as boring because of its minimal dialogue, ironically claustrophobic wide-angle shots, and old school editing. However, this may be exactly what the director wants us to feel. The movie is conspicuously calm. We see characters move as if we're there, observing people come in and out of our chosen frame. The movie chooses to be a situational comedy instead of delving into heavy drama. Knowing the reason for Juan wanting to temporarily escape a present reality makes me think, the makers of the movie could have made a heavy drama instead, but they didn't.
Rating: 3.5/4.0
Date seen: December 30, 2016
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