Lakeview 👏, dir. Tara Thorne, 2024, Canada, 100 min.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 6:00 pm, New Parkway (Oakland)
🇺🇸 U.S. premiere
also available in the Digital Screening Room, June 23 to 30, 2025
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| Lakeview |
The basic setup is pretty familiar ground: a group of not-quite-middle-aged people gather in a summer cabin in for a few days. Some are fresh off relationships that ended, some are just starting new relationships, some are taking established relationships even deeper, and some are perpetually single. When they get together, all sorts of old unfinished business resurfaces. So far, nothing novel.
Darcy, the host, is freshly divorced (from a man), and having her first glass of wine pretty much first thing in the morning. Julien and Juli Anne (“the Julies”) are married and expecting a baby, but perhaps a bit nervous about parenthood and all that comes with it. Lauren seems to have her life together, but she brings her new girlfriend, the much younger Phoebe. Lucy has just been dumped, and is seeking comfort in wine, liquor, drugs, or whatever is handy. You get the feeling that Lucy is a messy drunk in the best of times, but even more so while wallowing in a breakup. And then there’s Dax, a successful indie musician who has been with everyone in the group except Phoebe, who is more than open to the idea of being next in line.
Most of the film isn’t exactly in a rut, but let’s say it mostly stays on well-marked paths through the woods, with some fresh moments but also some pretty predictable turns. Without giving anything away, though, I will say that the film really comes into its own in the last act, the last 15 minutes or so, as the story finds interesting new ways to bring its threads to a conclusion — not neat and tidy, exactly, but satisfying. Highly recommended.
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