One of my favorite modern French filmmakers, François Ozon, never fails to beautifully frame intimate interpersonal dramas, often touching upon controversial and almost juicy topics, with great honesty and sincerity. Jeune et Jolie DIRECTOR: François Ozon CAST: Marine Vacth A modern French film by Alain Guiraudie (Le roi de l’évasion, 2009) that could truly become a cult classic. The film gives the viewer a great sense of the local gay-scene, and despite that the film is largely a very light story, it at one point slowly transforms into a dark yet subtle thriller. One of the sun and sex worshippers is Franck who falls in love with the attractive and manly Michel, one of the other guests, although he knows full well that Michel cannot be trusted and is highly dangerous. Placed in a Eric Rohmer kind of setting at a picturesque French lake where men come to spend their summer days, and occasionally have intercourse in the nearby woods. It is magnificently subtle and spectacularly in-your-face at the same time.
In the current influx of gay-themed films L’inconnu du Lac is the top of the bill.
L’inconnu du Lac DIRECTOR: Alain Guiraudie CAST: Pierre Deladonchamps
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