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‘Sunfish and Other Stories on Green Lake’ Review: A Relaxing Omnibus Movie Dips Its Toe in a Small-Town Michigan Summer
Sierra Falconer's grad school thesis project transports audiences to a lake she knows well, barely scratching the surface of the lives it depicts.
The location, rather than the characters or their independent narrative strands, serves to unify the four sketches that comprise “Sunfish and Other Stories on Green Lake.” Set in writer-director Sierra Falconer ’s old stomping grounds — among the cozy, neighborly community that surrounds a scenic lake in northern Michigan — the pleasantly laconic anthology film debuted in U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance. Before the sort of adversity that might fuel a feature can arise, Falconer turns the audience’s attention to Jun (Jim Kaplan), one of the few Asian American kids at a prestigious “band camp,” where early success can pave the way for a career as a concert musician. With a bit more writing, the “Two-Hearted” chapter that follows could probably support an entire film, as a single mom named Annie (Karsen Liotta) overhears Finn (Dominic Bogart), one of the regulars at the bar where she works, spinning tales of a giant fish he claims to have spotted in Green Lake.
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