Feature2013·100m·6.3

Stranger by the Lake

DramaThriller

Franck 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.

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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

Claude Bellelle

The Naturist

Slawomir Cieminski

The Naturist

Jean-Marie Crémier

The Naturist

Bernard Delavaux

The Naturist

Bernard German

The Naturist

Jean-Michel Giordano

The Naturist

Lucien Lerda

The Naturist

Patrick Marconi

The Naturist

Serge Morgadinho

The Naturist

Éric Piccolotto

The Naturist

Details

Status
Released
Original language
French
Languages
French
Budget
$1.4M
Revenue
$1.2M
Age rating
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
Les films du WorsoARTE France CinémaFilms de Force MajeureM141

Crew

Director

Alain Guiraudie

Writers

Alain Guiraudie

Claire Mathon

Director of Photography

Jean-Christophe Hym

Editor

Roy Genty

Costume Design

François-Renaud Labarthe

Costume Design

Gallery

Reviews

tmdb15214618

5/14/2018

7.0

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

5/21/2023

6.0

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.