Weekend Movie Forecast: Brüno or Humpday

Filmed in the Yucatán harbor town Puerto Progreso, Lake Tahoe concerns a young man whose car accident throws him in with an unlikely group of characters. Jeannette Catsoulis at the Times calls it "dreamy... So different from the usual fare that it might have arrived from another galaxy, Lake Tahoe is a painstaking collage of small incidents and expansive images clustered around a fragile narrative. At the center is Juan (Diego Cataño), a phlegmatic teenager whose bright red Nissan has collided with a pole; around him are a variety of characters — a grumpy dog lover, a friendly kung fu fanatic — who may or may not be able to help him get moving again. To reach his destination, however, he will require more than a mechanic and a replacement part...This gorgeous, deceptively tranquil movie (the second from the Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke) unfolds in long, motionless takes that cut abruptly to black."