<p>Ala Guirdie's gay art-cema spense story is pellg and dacly ndid s erotic charge, wr <strong>Jonathan Romney</strong></p>
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STRANGER BY THE LAKE (2013): FRENCH THRILLER IS BT GAY FILM A DE
* stranger by the lake gay film *
Guirdie has been makg wildly idsyncratic gay-themed films sce the early 90s, often set an imagary neo-mediaeval Provence, where portly elrly men tend to be the hottt love objects new film is more nventnal only that Guirdie has purged the overt goofs.
Stranger By the Lake is a gay art-cema spense story, set over 10 days on the sun-kissed, pe-forted banks of a lake – a cisg ground where men n work on their tans between torrid tsl the shbbery.
"Stranger by the Lake" is the sexit and most elegant thriller years, and 's a damn shame stands so ltle chance of travelg beyond the niche of a "gay film" will probably get squeezed to.
Highlight of the upg Toronto and New York Film Fts, 's one of the bt gay-themed films a long time. * stranger by the lake gay film *
We never leave a sunny gay cisg area the characters are equentg—a lake, a beach, a nearby boudoir of bh—but our imagatn is kept alert at all tim: every image and every cut is unrled wh tensn.
And while the latter enjoys Henri's pany, he falls love wh Michel (Christophe Paou), a sexy and myster Tom Selleck lookalike the entire beach is smten wh (he's like a mid-1980s gay centerfold rnate).
Movie review: A potential serial killer shak up a popular cisg spot for gay men the tantalizg 'Stranger by the Lake.' * stranger by the lake gay film *
By immersg so totally the workgs of the gay beach, Guirdie avoid the trap of William Friedk's abysmal "Cisg", which prented s i as a eak show.