Expectations The lake were double. Because it is not only the only Swiss production in the race for the Gold Leopard of the 78th Locarno Film Festival, but also of the first feature film by Fabrice Aragno, who was for twenty years the assistant and leader of Jean-Luc Godard-also his “apprentice sorcerer”, he had fun. Impossible, therefore, not to think, sometimes, of the herald of the New Wave, for example when the Neuchâtel filmmaker installed in Vaud Terres has fun through a “cut montage” to offer sudden breaks within the same scene, thus breaking his continuity. A style figure invented by Godard when he was forced to reduce the duration of the founder Out of breath (1960).
More than a film in the first sense of the term, The lake is an essay in which Aragno abandons traditional narration to go to the sensory side. The story, let’s call it, however, is that of a couple-Anna and Vincent, embodied by the French actress Clotilde Courau and the Geneva navigator Bernard Stamm-embarking on their sailboat for a regatta of several days on a lake which is not named name identified, but which is of course the Lake Geneva-and the race is the golden bowl.