Charlotte Le Bon’s feature film debut Falcon Lake is an immersive, poetic deep dive into that strange, hazy time between childhood and adolescence

| Jun 7, 2023

I'm not sure the ending really works, but I like that [Charlotte Le Bon] has made this movie.

| Jun 6, 2023

It becomes clear that we’re watching the best moments of a story that’s destined to end badly. Yet we keep watching, due in large part to the deeply human performances from Engel and Montpetit.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 5, 2023

A smartly executed hybrid of teenage rite-of-passage drama and traditional ghost story, ever so slowly tightens its grip as it plays with our preconceived notions.

| Jun 2, 2023

“Falcon Lake” is a handsome, intriguing feature directing debut from Le Bon; a naturalistic teen romance spiked with mystique...

| Jun 1, 2023

The inadvertent effect of the oppressive, almost overbearing gloom that shrouds Falcon Lake is that it manages to sap the life out of its initially carefree depiction of young people’s emotional lives.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 28, 2023

A gem of mood and technique, it’s the most impressive work by a first-time Canadian feature director I’ve seen this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2022

Charlotte Le Bon's exceptionally assured first directorial film is full of light mischief yet heavy with horror-movie mood.

| Jun 5, 2022

In its own quiet and ruminative way, it’s a sweet and sharp elucidation of the agony and, well, inconsequentiality, of first love.

| May 23, 2022