Stranger by the Lake

Stranger by the Lake

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Director: Alain Guiraudie

Producer: Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon

Frank spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.

100 min Rating: 6.294/10 Released
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Director: Alain Guiraudie

Producer: Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon

Production Companies: Les films du Worso, ARTE France Cinéma, Films de Force Majeure, M141

Countries: France

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tmdb15214618: A skillful Hitchcockian thriller weakened by a slack tempo--which does, to approach from another perspective, give one ample opportunity to admire the gorgeous cinematography and sound--and some unnecessarily/distractingly explicit sex. An ending would have been nice.
CinemaSerf: A rather well shot, but pedestrian affair about good-looking young man "Franck" who frequents a gay cruising area on a lake shore and falls for a stranger. Around the same time, an ex-lover of the stranger is found drowned. What makes this film interesting is that both we, and him, know what happened and yet he decidedly refuses to co-operate with the police and puts himself and others at considerable risk. Is it infatuation or indifference or both? This is an oddly arid piece of cinema. At best it shows this cruising community as indifferent to the crime; and worst to a callousness that is quite shudderingly numb and unbelievably inhuman.