Franck, a fit gay man, seeks love at a lakeside gay cruising beach. Among the mostly pudgy nude sunbathers, he befriends Henri, a depressed middle-aged bi-sexual who enjoys the quiet but accepts Franck's company. When Michel appears, Franck finally spots a man he'd like to know sexually. Unfortunately, he also spots him drowning his gay lover but opts not to tell anyone in order to consider having a relationship with this handsome yet remorseless killer.... (Full plot summary below)
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Franck, a fit gay man, seeks love at a lakeside gay cruising beach. Among the mostly pudgy nude sunbathers, he befriends Henri, a depressed middle-aged bi-sexual who enjoys the quiet but accepts Franck's company. When Michel appears, Franck finally spots a man he'd like to know sexually. Unfortunately, he also spots him drowning his gay lover but opts not to tell anyone in order to consider having a relationship with this handsome yet remorseless killer.
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| Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerStranger by the Lake invites you into its alluring and peaceful world, only to gradually uncover the darkness beneath it. |
| Film4Anton BitelDesire, danger and death - Guiraudie uses the water's edge as a playground for hedonistic predators and willing prey. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe film is a Hitchcockian murder story in which the Hitchcockian elements-style as well as content-are stood on their heads in order to realize a philosophical vision that's no less sophisticated than Hitchcock's own. |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterThough it'll be confined to the art house circuit, Stranger By the Lake actually has all the ingredients of a mainstream, page-turning summer beach read. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneAlain Guiraudie's film portrays cruising as a danger-seeking and astoundingly repetitive affair, intimately linked to death itself. |
| JWRS. James WeggFranck, so akin to Philip in Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, knows in his heart that he is making a potentially deadly mistake, but his insatiable lust won't hear a word of it. |
| Paste MagazineTim GriersonWriter-director Alain Guiraudie gives the proceedings an almost clinical detachment, and consequently "Stranger by the Lake" has an air of Hitchcock to it. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenThis "different" and "original" minimalist drama (no music soundtrack, only one scene exhibited) is a meditation on passionate love and violent death among a small group of French homosexuals. |
| Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyThe filmmaker constructs a growing sense of dread with the calculated precision of a classic horror movie. |
| The DissolveScott TobiasEven when the plot kicks in and the stakes get raised, there’s a casualness to Guiraudie’s approach that’s singular and admirably defiant of genre expectations. He’s setting a scene. Tension insinuates itself later. |
