In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake.
Cinematography
That lake shimmers like a memory you'll never actually have.
Acting
Paul Kircher carries adolescent rage with terrifying precision.
Direction
Boukherma twins turn a canoe trip into class warfare poetry.
Director
Ludovic Boukherma
Paul Kircher
Anthony
Angelina Woreth
Stephanie
Sayyid El Alami
Hacine
Gilles Lellouche
Patrick
Ludivine Sagnier
Hélène
Anouk Villemin
Clémence Durupt
Louis Memmi
Le cousin
Louise Lehry
Nath
Christine Gautier
Vanessa
Raphaël Quenard
Manu
Lounès Tazairt
Malek Bouali
Bilel Chegrani
Kader
Barbara Butch
Irène
Brice Fournier
Pierre Chaussoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapting Nicolas Mathieu's Goncourt-winning novel, the film captures France's forgotten industrial east—the 'France périphérique' that fueled the gilets jaunes movement.
The Boukhermas shot chronologically over an actual summer, letting the actors' real sunburns and exhaustion bleed into the performances. That lake is real, that heat is real, that desperation is real.
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