Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake

Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake is a controversial Cannes-winning drama, that considers intimacy, murder and homoeroticism in the context of gay anonymous sex in a picturesque lake setting outside of Paris. In a sexually explicit context we come to know several of the often naked men who sunbathe, swim and hook up in the nearby woods in this thriller which ponders the attraction a killer might have to a love starved romantic youth. Warning: Spoilers! In French and English.

•