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A Lake (2008)
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Original name: Un Lac
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ecstatic, prey to epileptic fits, he is entirely opened to the nature that surrounds him. Alexi is terribly close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, their father and their little brother are the silent witnesses to their overwhelming love. A stranger arrives, a young man barely older that Alexi...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, emotional, stylized, contemplative, disturbing, controversial, art house, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, obsession, love and romance, isolation, family problems, wilderness, human nature, couple relations, woods, women, underground, minimalism, landscape, unsettling, siblings relations, surrealism, folk horror, love triangle, forest, psychological drama, in the woods ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
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