Stranger by the Lake

Unrated

9/30/20131h 40m

Premiere Release (US)

Overview:

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.

Director:

Alain Guiraudie

Status:

Released

Language:

French

Buget:

$1,400,000.00

Revenue:

$1,200,000.00

Key words:

lake
drowning
detective
cruising
investigation
love
murder
loneliness
male homosexuality
skinny dipping
summer
swimming
sexual desire
stranger
lgbt
murder investigation
exhibitionism
casual sex
companionship
sunbathing
gay theme

Cast

Pierre Deladonchamps

~ as ~

Franck

Christophe Paou

~ as ~

Michel

Patrick d'Assumçao

~ as ~

Henri

Jérôme Chappatte

~ as ~

Inspector Damroder

Mathieu Vervisch

~ as ~

Éric

Gilbert Traïna

~ as ~

Tuesday Night Man

Emmanuel Daumas

~ as ~

Philippe

Sébastien Badachaoui

~ as ~

Eric's Boyfriend

Gilles Guérin

~ as ~

Ladies' Man

François-Renaud Labarthe

~ as ~

Pascal Ramière

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Reviews (2)

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Written 7 year(s) ago
7
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
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
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.