Bunched Undies (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
If you saw Fernando Eimbcke’s dryly amusing “Duck Season”, then you know what to expect: leisurely pacing, naturalism on steroids and performances so understated they border on the comatose. Set in a seedy beach town on the Yucatan peninsula, this outing again features young Diego Cantano as Juan, who has just rammed his mom’s car into a telephone pole, and his...
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Mexican writer-director Fernando Eimbcke's 2004 feature film debut, Duck Season , won numerous film festival awards and made an impression on me personally. Eimbcke takes an unfortunate if not unusual route other filmmakers have traveled following a successful debut and gets self-indulgent with his follow-up, Lake Tahoe . It was just released this week on DVD by Film Movement....
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Reviewer: James van Maanen Rating (out of 5): **** On the basis of his first two full-length features -- Duck Season and now Lake Tahoe -- I'm ready to declare Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke (pronounced I'm-Kay, with the accent on the first syllable) a real original. Eimbcke's got his own tone and “take†on things, and his movies remind...
Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Former music-video director Fernando Eimbcke continues to hone his feature-film career with this drama concerning a 14-year-old boy who makes the transition from childhood to adulthood while attempting to repair an irreplaceable gift. The final gift that Juan ever received from his father was a car. Now Juan has crashed that car, and he's determined to get it in working order again....
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
In Fernando Eimbcke's film, a young man goes on a quest to fix his car, finding a human connection when he desperately needs it. At first glance "Lake Tahoe," the second feature by the 39-year-old Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke, looks very much like your standard minimalist import. Laconic characters, a fixed camera and unhurried rhythms amount these days to...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Mexico/Japan/USA Feature Film Director: Fernando Eimbcke Writers: Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch Cinematographer: Alexis Zabe Cast: Diego Cataño, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara II, Yemil Sefani Juan, a quiet, skinny youth, wanders around a small town, early one morning, attempting to acquire the part necessary to fix the family car; along...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Highly Recommended In Lake Tahoe , director and co-writer Fernando Eimbcke displays a gentle but controlled sensibility in telling a quiet story that has an almost universal resonance. To clear up confusion straight away, I should point out to those interested that the film's title has no relation to its locale. Lake Tahoe is set firmly in contemporary Mexico, although I can't be more...
