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6.3 1h 40m

Stranger by the Lake

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.

Top Cast

  • Pierre Deladonchamps

    Pierre Deladonchamps

    Franck

  • Christophe Paou

    Christophe Paou

    Michel

  • Patrick d'Assumçao

    Patrick d'Assumçao

    Henri

  • Jérôme Chappatte

    Jérôme Chappatte

    Inspector Damroder

  • Mathieu Vervisch

    Mathieu Vervisch

    Éric

  • Gilbert Traïna

    Gilbert Traïna

    Tuesday Night Man

  • Emmanuel Daumas

    Emmanuel Daumas

    Philippe

  • Sébastien Badachaoui

    Sébastien Badachaoui

    Eric's Boyfriend

  • Gilles Guérin

    Gilles Guérin

    Ladies' Man

Overview

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.

Rating

6.3 / 10
469 Reviews
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2 Reviews

  • tmdb15214618
    tmdb15214618
    7 May 14, 2018

    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
    CinemaSerf
    6 May 21, 2023

    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.

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