Stranger by the Lake

L'inconnu du lac
Alain Guiraudie
Part of

Alain Guiraudie: King of Escape

January 24 - 30, 2014

Winner of a directing prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Alain Guiraudie’s exploration of death and desire unfolds entirely in the vicinity of a gay cruising ground that becomes a crime scene.

DIRECTOR
Alain Guiraudie
YEAR
2013
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
97 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
L'inconnu du lac
START DATE
January 24, 2014

Winner of a directing prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Alain Guiraudie’s exploration of death and desire unfolds entirely in the vicinity of a gay cruising ground that becomes a crime scene. Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a regular at a lakeside pickup spot, where he finds companionship both platonic and carnal. But his new paramour Michel (Christophe Paou) turns out to be a love-’em-and-leave-’em type, in the deadliest sense… Guiraudie has long been a singular voice in French cinema: anti-bourgeois, at ease in nature, a true regionalist and outsider. Here he captures naked bodies and hardcore sex with the same matter-of-fact sensuousness that he brings to ripples on the water and the fading light of dusk.

 

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