Alain Guiraudie’s highly sensual, highly sexual film, set almost entirely in a gay cruising area, is all about voyeurism. The men, including director Guiraudie in peek-a-boo cameo (perhaps to show he won’t ask his actors to do anything he wouldn’t do himself), are often sans clothes on the beach for extended periods of time. Guiraudie shoots the men who appear au natural in a naturalistic way that leaves little room for them to be discrete, and a lot of room for them to be desired. As various guys couple up in the nearby woods, a heady game of attraction develops between a handsome young man, and a murderer he observes. “Stranger by the Lake” puts viewers in the position of the characters, who watch, ogle, and lust after the hot French gay men. One may even work up enough of a sweat that a dip in the lake is required.
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