Lake Tahoe
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. What begins as a mundane adventure quickly becomes a transformative journey exploring issues of death, family, love and sex.
Cast
- Diego Cataño
- Hector Herrera
- Daniela Valentine
- Juan Carlos Lara
- Yemil Sefami
DVD Features
Bonus short: Noodles, directed by Jordan Feldman
Sound: Stereo 2.0 and 5.1 Surround Sound
Discs: 1
- "Critic's Pick! Exquisitely captured in natural light by the cinematographer Alexis Zabé, Juan’s journey is framed by sherbet-colored houses and lemon sidewalks, dipping palm fronds and a burnished, turquoise horizon. The director calls his style “artisan cinema”; I just call it dreamy."
- "The film's siesta-speed pacing lets us bask in a cavalcade of sunny compositions, framed in ample CinemaScope dimensions. Nearly every shot is a joy to behold!"
- "Touching! This supremely poised film...becomes richer and less familiar as it goes along."
- "A masterwork of storytelling...a seemingly effortless performance of a sort we almost never see."
Awards & Recognition
FIPRESCI Special Prize
Cannes Film Festival
Best Film
Mexican Oscars®
Best Director
Mexican Oscars®
Best Supporting Actor
Mexican Oscars®
Alfred Bauer Prize
Berlin Int'l Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize
Berlin Int'l Film Festival
Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival
San Sebastian Int'l Film Festival
Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival
Portland Int'l Film Festival
San Diego Latino Film Festival
Cleveland Int'l Film Festival
Philadelphia Film Festival
Wisconsin Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Atlanta Int'l Film Festival
Cine Las Americas Film Festival
San Francisco Int'l Film Festival
Maryland Film Festival
Berkshire Int'l Film Festival
Hola Mexico Film Festival
Milwaukee Film Festival
San Juan Int'l Film Festival
AFI Latin Film Festival
San Francisco Latino Int'l Film Festival
St. Louis Int'l Film Festival
Three Rivers Film Festival
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