A LAKE (UN LAC) .World Cinema

Philippe Grandrieux (SOMBRE, LA VIE NOUVELLE) is an artist fully engaged with the reinvention of cinema. “I don’t thin k in terms of stories,” Grandrieux hos noted. “To me these films ore objects They’re plastic They’re formed.” Set in a misty and remote corner of the French Alps, A LAKE envisions? family living in the woods and supported by the eldest son s logging, despite his frequent, violent epileptic fits He adores his sister, perhaps excessively The arrival of a stronger to help with the logging sets off tremors that dislocate the delicate balance of family relationships In Grandrieux’s hands, this story becomes a complete sensory experience that engages the eye, ear, mind and emotions to their fullest extent. At once intensely physical and metaphysical, Grandrieux’s expression of feeling through light land its absence), sounds and faces offers a mainline to the subconscious and a slob of experience.