Stranger By the Lake
The kind of taut, low-key thriller that Roman Polanski and Alfred Hitchcock would very much admire.
Stranger By the Lake
Directed by Alain Guiraudie (No Rest for the Brave, The King of Escape). Frank (Pierre Deladonchamps) 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 (Christophe Paou), an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. When a death occurs, Frank and Michel become the primary suspects, but they choose to ignore the dangers and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship. STRANGER BY THE LAKE is an erotic thriller that tests the lengths and limits of sexual desire. Official Selection of the 2013 New York Film Festival and 2013 Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Queer Palm and Un Certain Regard for Best Director.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
97
Language
French
Director
Alain Guiraudie
Cast
Pierre Deladonchamps,
Christophe Paou,
Patrick d'Assumçao
Awards:
Winner, Queer Palm, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Un Certain Regard ~ Avenir Prize, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Richard Brody, New Yorker
With the talk in France of the President’s affair, and the question of whether his private life is fair game for the press, it’s worth considering what a new French film that opens here today—“Stranger by the Lake,” directed by Alain Guiraudie—shows and suggests about the tacit boundaries that are ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 1.31.14 - 2.13.14
Monica Film Center 1.31.14 - 2.06.14
NoHo 7 2.07.14 - 2.13.14
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