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Following in the footsteps of Blue is the Warmest Color, Alain Guiraudie‘s sun-soaked psychological thriller is even more explicit in its depiction of gay sex (this time between men), eventually to the point of indulgence. Despite a few good jolts near the end, and all of the passionate coupling, Stranger is curiously bloodless as both a drama and a slow-burning psychological thriller.Set entirely at a lakeside cruising spot, the film opens with Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) arriving at the start of his summer. Though he’s attracted to the fit, tan, and mustachioed Michel (Christophe Paou), he’s unable to woo him away from his current lover. Bored, Franck befriends the quiet, closeted Henri (Patrick d’Assumcao), and the two form a platonic relationship as Franck continues to lust after Michel from afar.
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Now add water, rinse, and repeat. Aside from one significant development, which I won’t reveal, the majority of the film consists of shots of male bodies, frequently nude, either sunbathing or locked in passionate embrace. Guiraudie even mines some of it for humor, which is the film’s lone saving grace.Otherwise, the director’s languid pacing proves to be detrimental. Once the fascinating psychological dilemma is laid out, Stranger by the Lake refuses to shift in any way. Within the conceit is the potential for an unsettling exploration of desire and our ability to rationalize anything to get (and keep) what we want. Rather than slowly ratcheting up the tension, Guiraudie’s direction renders the narrative totally stillborn. The film runs just over 90 minutes, yet it feels so much longer, and in the worst possible way.
Beyond the direction and the pacing, the characters aren’t up to snuff either. The actors all seem perfectly capable, yet they are poorly served by the screenplay, which is as lazy with characterization as the directing is with atmosphere. Guiraudie wants to use sex to define these characters,(Download Stranger by the Lake) and that’s where Franck and Michel’s interactions go wrong. The initial sex scenes, as graphic as they are, are acceptable in their uncensored depiction of rampant lust. Yet the longer the film goes on, and the less Franck and Michel’s relationship actually progresses, the continued inclusion of the sex scenes becomes gratuitous. The duo’s sex life develops gradually, while the psychological developments come in contrived fits and starts.
Admittedly, the abrupt finale marginally raises the pulse, but it’s barely enough to undo the numbing sensation of all that came before. Concluding with a ludicrously drawn-out final shot, Stranger by the Lake frustrates and annoys, even when it momentarily engages. Ideas and ambition are important,(Download Stranger by the Lake) but they’re difficult to appreciate when coupled with misguided and lackluster execution. Though it ends in a flurry of motion, the majority of Stranger by the Lake is as listless and sun-dappled as the naked denizens of its titular setting.
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Such a reflection of reality in movies is quite expected and justified, but persistent repetition of these, let's call them classic LGBT motives are filmmakers often forgetting that it is a good movie to do something more than simply highlight the problem fixed. Feeling is that in recent years has reached a critical mass of films, which enabled the evolution of LGBT film. Or otherwise,(Download Stranger by the Lake) created the conditions for the formation of films such as Adelino life and Unknown to the lake. Adelino life so no more losing power on display inconvenience faced by young lesbian, but rather focus on a detailed dissection of universal design first love.
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A place where you can tan naked and watching other men in Adam costume, or with any of the visitors ignoring sex in the nearby forest. Handsome man as Franck is no shortage of offers for casual sex, but that instead express the gratification of sexual desire rather opt for friendship with Henry, a chubby man who from day to day lonely sits somewhere on the outskirts and away from watching the action on the beach. Henri, who is not really sure what it is (gay or bisexual),(Download Stranger by the Lake) Franck not physically attracted to, so new friends most of the time just chatting pleasantly. Then, Franck sees the handsome Michel, which is strongly attracted. Attractiveness is double sided, but Michael already has a (jealous) lover, who immediately takes a hostile defensive stance. When a few days later pulled out the body of Michael's partner, the beach gets a detective who begins to investigate the circumstances in which a young gay drowned.
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I think one of the main factors for good functioning of the film a great atmosphere, resulting from the spatial limitations of systematically or use only three recording locations and thoughtful framing, which is projected to like anxiety and feelings of being trapped in their own destiny. After the discovery of the body police investigation into the death of a young man becomes what the main narrative driver (at least in the classical sense), but the fact that viewers (and the two main protagonists) know the truth about the death of the unfortunate young man clearly indicate that the police investigation is merely a tool with which director creating favorable conditions for a detailed study of all aspects of (homosexual) desire,(Download Stranger by the Lake) passion and love. This motif is with us up to the (open) end, after which some time thinking about the central conflict in which stand on opposite sides of lust and morality. Alain Guiraudie has created a daring and complex film that presents true refreshment in the vast sea of similar brezidejnih movies and it will be interesting to see what a Frenchman has to offer in the future.
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