52 Films by Women Vol 6. 42. FALCON LAKE (Director: Charlotte Le Bon)
It has been a while since I have heard a logo cheered unironically in a cinema. That is what happened at Cannes this year when Tandem ™ appeared at the start of actress-turned-director Charlotte Le Bon’s debut feature, Falcon Lake . The cast and director of this French-Canadian film were in attendance but that didn’t account for the enthusiasm shown within the first twenty seconds of the film for the distribution company, whose releases include Sound of Metal and Un Monde (Playground) . Clearly, the crowd was partisan and more or less guaranteed a five-minute ovation as the credits rolled. I told myself: ‘it’s Cannes. It’s not real life.’ I had the opportunity to watch the film again without English subtitles. The scene that drew a huge laugh the previous day didn’t wow the French audience at a Cannes Cin é phile screening, a high percentage of whom were over sixty. The applause was modest, but an English speaker around my age, sensing my nationality from my Glasgow Film Festiv...