Plot
Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel. An attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 7.1/10 (1,890 voted)
Director:Alain Guiraudie
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Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel. An attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.
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There was no improvisation on set. All the scenes were filmed exactly as written and the dialogue was word for word as in the script. Even the numerous sex scenes between the lead actors were extensively choreographed and rehearsed so that the crew could go on location and film the sex scenes quickly and smoothly. It also put the actors at ease as they had to just mechanically perform what they had rehearsed. See more »
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This film tells what goes on among the men cruising by a beautiful lake
in the summer, somewhere in France.
"Stranger by the Lake" is a single location film, with all scenes
happening in or by the lake. The story focuses on a handsome young man
who gets attracted to a dangerous man, putting his life at risk. Then,
relationships between them, and a solitary man who sits by the lake
gets complicated. Though the pacing is pretty slow in the beginning,
the paces accelerates at lightning speed towards the end, delivering
much thrills that makes people hold their breath. The ending is left
open, but scenes just before the film ends are shocking and almost
aggravating, evoking much gasps of horror and shouts of exasperation in
the cinema.
Together with the highly explicit scenes, "Stranger by the Lake" is
quite an thrilling eye opener that tells the truth in a cruising
ground, and how love is completely blind.
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