A Lake

Year: 2008

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: French

Director: Philippe Grandrieux

Drama

The story takes place in an unnamed northern land of snow and forest, where a secluded family lives by a lake. Alexi, a pure‑hearted woodcutter who occasionally suffers epileptic seizures and enters ecstatic communion with nature, is deeply attached to his younger sister Hege. Their blind mother, father and younger brother watch the intense bond in silence. One day a slightly older stranger arrives, unsettling the fragile world.

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