The Lake House Reviewed: An Elegant Agresti Achievement

Flaws in editing and some irregularities in acting will probably prevent The Lake House from being an Academy Award contender, but, nonetheless, this movie stays with you and is memorable in its overall excellence, beauty and tenderness, directed with a delicate and sensitive hand by Argentinian film maker Alejandro Agresti.

The Lake House is a story of a woman, a man, a house by the lake and connectedness. The woman, Kate (Sandra Bullock), is a doctor taking on her first full-fledged job at a hospital in Chicago. In order to make this transition, she must leave the fabulous lake house she has been renting near the community hospital where she did her residency. At her departure, another tenant moves in, Alex by name (Keanu Reeves).