Stranger by the Lake
Synopsis
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.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Status: Released
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Main Cast
Pierre Deladonchamps
Franck
Christophe Paou
Michel
Patrick d'Assumçao
Henri
Jérôme Chappatte
Inspector Damroder
Mathieu Vervisch
Éric
Gilbert Traïna
Tuesday Night Man
Emmanuel Daumas
Philippe
Sébastien Badachaoui
Eric's Boyfriend
Gilles Guérin
Ladies' Man
François-Renaud Labarthe
Pascal Ramière
Trailer
User Reviews
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.
