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Lake Tahoe by Fernando Eimbcke - Movie Club 2018
Topic Started: Apr 5 2018, 02:20 AM (362 Views)
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Sorry I was gone for awhile guys. This is the movie I chose. This guy is one of my favorite Mexican contemporary directors, specially because he's one of the only ones not focusing on all the bad things in the country. His movies are more day to day stuff and just what a normal day would be like. His most famous film is Duck Season, but this one is my personal favorite. I like films that focus on everyday lives, not over the top situations.

It won Ariel for Best Film and a bunch of festival prizes.

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It sure did feel like a festival movie, trendy as all get-out, the way I'd expect a movie by someone just out of film-school to be... but he was almost 40 when he made this.

In his favor, this set of influences isn't nearly as irritating to me as the young directors who mimic Tarantino and Gaspar Noe.
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Some nice touches, though - I like those cuts to black that are held longer than expected. (I swear another film I've seen recently did something like this, but I can't for the life of me remember which one.) It's used pretty effectively in the scene where they go see Enter the Dragon.

It's a relatively superficial similarity, but I was reminded of Lisandro Alonso's Liverpool, also a slow-moving Latin American festival film whose title is a foreign location that has no relevance to the plot beyond appearing on an object seen near the end.
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The cuts to black were a feature of Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise that were much commented on at the time. He didn't do anything playful with diegetic sound during his blacked-out parts, though.

Does anybody want to speculate about the parts of the narrative that Eimbcke is deliberately withholding from us?
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Oh yeah - there's definitely a lot of Jarmusch's DNA in Lake Tahoe.
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I loved those moving shots thrown in between of those still ones when he's walking from the right to the left side of the screen.

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In his favor, this set of influences isn't nearly as irritating to me as the young directors who mimic Tarantino and Gaspar Noe.


Agree.
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can this be re-upped please? :D
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the included srt is way out of sync... but it seems to work pretty well if i delay the subs by 11 seconds

(no one else has run into this?)
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