Lake Tahoe

Eimbcke’s follow-up to the acclaimed Duck Season captures the absurdity of life with a droll sense of humor similar to the early films of Jim Jarmusch. When doeeyed teenager Juan crashes his car on the outskirts of his dusty Mexican hamlet, the search for a part to fix it puts him in touch with a love-struck punk-rock mother, a paranoid mechanic, a kung fu–obsessed courier, and an intimidating dog over the course of one of the worst days of his life. Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. 2008, 35mm, in Spanish with English subtitles, 85 minutes.