Stranger by the Lake

Stranger by the Lake

30/9/2013 1h 40m 6.3/10

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

Top Billed Cast

Gilbert Traïna

Gilbert Traïna

Tuesday Night Man

Pierre Deladonchamps

Pierre Deladonchamps

Franck

Christophe Paou

Christophe Paou

Michel

Patrick d'Assumçao

Patrick d'Assumçao

Henri

Jérôme Chappatte

Inspector Damroder

Mathieu Vervisch

Mathieu Vervisch

Éric

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

5/21/2023

6/10

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.

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