STRANGER BY THE LAKE opens Friday with Alain Guiraudie in person for Q&As. Scott Tobias for The Dissolve: Since premièring at Cannes last year, Guiraudie’s film has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock’s work in its diabolical mix of desire and suspense, but it has its own beautiful, languorous allure. Queer films—or straight films, for that matter—are rarely this startlingly explicit, but Guiraudie doesn’t aim to shock or provoke, at least on a surface level. He aims first to capture the milieu, almost to the point where Stranger By The Lake feels more like a slice of life than something that will eventually take shape as a thriller. And even when the plot kicks in and the stakes get raised, there’s a casualness to Guiraudie’s approach that’s singular and admirably defiant of genre expectations. He’s setting a scene. Tension insinuates itself later.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:30:00 +0000
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