Film Screening: Lake Tahoe
Jul 10, 2009, 19:00
ONE WEEK ONLY
LAKE TAHOE
A film by Fernando Eimbcke
(Mexico, 2008, 81 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Presented by
Film Movement, Cinema Tropical & The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York
“Powerful!”
J Hoberman, Village Voice
“Blissful.”
Simon Abrams, NY Press
“One of those movies that promises to work even better the second time around.”
Michael Tully, Hammer to Nail
“Lake Tahoe is a gorgeous, artfully composed…miniature masterpiece”
Gary Kramer, Philadelphia City Paper
Teenage Juan crashes his family’s car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town, and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. His quest will bring him to Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his almost human boxer dog; to Lucía, a young mother who is convinced that her real place in life is as a lead singer in a punk band, and to “The One who Knows”, a teenage mechanic obsessed with martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy. The absurd and bewildering worlds of these characters drag Juan into a one day journey in which he will come to accept what he was escaping from in the first place--an event both as natural and inexplicable as a loved one’s death.
Click here to watch the trailer of the film.
Opens Friday, July 10, Anthology Film Archives - 32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
Showtimes: Daily 7 & 9pm
Additional shows Sat & Sun 3 & 5pm
Director Fernando Eimbcke will do a Q&A, folowing the 7pm shows and introduce the 9pm shows on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Opening Night Party, 164 Elizabeth St., (NE corner of Kenmare)
Sponsored by Casa Mezcal. Please join Film Movement & Cinema Tropical at 9:30 PM. Complimentary Mezcal and Dos Equis beer until 11 PM
TropiChat with the director, July 11, New Museum, 235 Bowery St.
TropiChat is an ongoing series brought to you by Cinema Tropical featuring conversations with renowed Latin American filmmakers.
On Saturday at 3 PM Director Fernando Eimbcke will speak with Gavin Smith, Film Comment Editor, about his acclaimed minimalist debut feature, Duck Season (Temporada de Patos), as well as his award-winning follow-up Lake Tahoe.
More information: Free with museum admission (212) 219-1222 www.newmuseum.org/events/350
