Movie Cosmos - Stranger by the Lake

Description:

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.

Top Cast >

Pierre Deladonchamps

As Franck

Christophe Paou

As Michel

Patrick d'Assumçao

As Henri

Jérôme Chappatte

As Inspector Damroder

Mathieu Vervisch

As Éric

Gilbert Traïna

As Tuesday Night Man

Emmanuel Daumas

As Philippe

Sébastien Badachaoui

As Eric's Boyfriend

Gilles Guérin

As Ladies' Man

François-Renaud Labarthe

As Pascal Ramière

Claude Bellelle

As The Naturist

Slawomir Cieminski

As The Naturist

Jean-Marie Crémier

As The Naturist

Bernard Delavaux

As The Naturist

Bernard German

As The Naturist

Jean-Michel Giordano

As The Naturist

Lucien Lerda

As The Naturist

Patrick Marconi

As The Naturist

Serge Morgadinho

As The Naturist

Éric Piccolotto

As The Naturist

Corentin Plas

As The Naturist

Renaud Rifflart

As The Naturist

Thomas Salles

As The Naturist

Nicolas Guimbard

As Stand-In

Joël Landaraud

As Stand-In

Alain Guiraudie

As Philippe's Friend (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Alain Guiraudie

Screenplay, Director

Claire Mathon

Director of Photography

Jean-Christophe Hym

Editor

Stéphane Batut

Casting

Nicolas Leclère

Production Manager

Benoît Quainon

Producer

Sylvie Pialat

Producer

Toufik Ayadi

Post-Production Manager

Olivier Père

Co-Producer

Ernesto Giolitti

Gaffer

Julie Darfeuil

First Assistant Director, Script Supervisor

Pierre-Olivier Persin

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Reviews:

tmdb15214618 (7/10)

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.

2018-05-14

CinemaSerf (6/10)

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.

2023-05-21