Stranger by the Lake (2013)

Stranger by the Lake (2013)"L'inconnu du lac" (original title)

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Writer: Alain Guiraudie
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: France
Language: French
Duration: 100 min

Stars: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte, Mathieu Vervisch

Stranac pored jezera  ( Stranger by lake) je francuski thriler u režiji Alain Guiraudie koji je na Kanskom festivalu 2013 dobio nagradu za režiju. Film je osvojio i Queer Palm nagradu, a takođe je prikazivan i na Toronto International Film Festivalu 2013. god.

Većina pedera i gejeva su iskusili čari kruzinga pored neke nudističke plaže na kojoj se kupaju mnogobrojni istomišljenici, radoznalci, swingeri, biseksualci, drkadžije, voajeri itd. Ukoliko ipak ima neko ko ne zna o čemu pričam neka sačeka prve tople proljetne dane i posjeti nudističu plažu, a ukoliko želite da to bude u Crnoj Gori predlažem vam Crvenu Glavicu, Adu Bojanu, Ratac ili Jaz.
Nemojte se samo sunčati i kupati nego malo prošetajte okolo plaže, a posebno predlažem da obiđete zaklonjenija mjesta, šumarke, udaljene uvalice i slično.
Velike su šanse da će te naići na razne likove koji onako napaljeno i uznevereno gledaju u vas potajno ili otvoreno drkajući kurac raznim mimikama vam davaju do znanja da žele seks sa vama ili vas otvoreno pitaju da li bi im dopustili da vam popuše kurac ili da vas prijateljski izjebu. U svakom slučaju od vaših afiniteta zavisi šta će te dalje raditi i nemojte se stidjeti šta god učinjeli. U tim trenucima budite upravo ono što želite da budete u vašim najluđim maštarijama uz koje obično drkate.
Na jednom od takvih mjesta, tamo neđe u Francuskoj na obali nekog jezera redovno dolazi i Frank, glavni lik ovog filma.
Svaki dan uredno polaže svoj bijeli peškir na plaži osmatrajući koga sve ima u okolici i pažljivo odmjeravajući one malobrojne sa kojima nije imao seks.Upoznaje Henrija, sredovječnog polu geja koji se nikada ne skida i uvjek je udaljen od ostalih nudista. Henri ga uvjek zove na piće ili na večeru ali Frenku izgleda nije do druženja sa nekim ko ga seksualno ne privlači.
Takođe upoznaje i Mišela, zgodnog muškarca srednjih godina koji djeluje baš onako muški i pomalo opasno. Naravno to je samo maska jer univerzalni Mišel obožava da se nabija na kurac kako bi povremeno razradio mušku dlakavu pičkicu.

Mišel na plaži ima i sex partnera tj. dečka sa kojim se redovno prca u okolnoj šumi.
Jedno kasno poslije podne Frank iz šume ugleda Mišela kako se kupa u jezeru sa svojim ljubavnikom. U tom trenutku Mišel uhvati nesretnog ljubavnika i udavi ga u jezeru.

Sledeći dan Frank se susreće sa Mišelom na plaži i pravi se da ne zna šta se desilo predhodni dan. Nakon kratog razgovora završe u  šumici iznad plaže gdje su uredno napunili jedan drugome guzice dok ih je jedan drkadžija posmatrao. Rodila se naravno ljubav jer seks je bio savršen. ( kod pedera seks je glavni pokazatelj zaljubljenosti:) U ovom slučaju Frenk je taj koji zove na piće i večeru, a Mišel kako to pederska pravila zahtjevaju odbija.

Šalim se naravno oko ove zaljubljenosti ali definitivno je kod promiskuitetnih pedera pravilo da sa osobom koja služi za seksualne igrice nikada ne idu na piće i da se ujutro nikada ne probude pored upotrebljenog kurca. Kod gejeva je to ipak malo drugačije, ali u suštini ponašanje je slično.

Ne bih da vam otkrijem sve do kraja, ali čitava ova priča ima nedorečen kraj i mislim da bi dodatnih desetak minuta  upotpunilo doživljaj gledanja ovog filma.
Za one koji vole malo eksplicitnije filmove siguran sam da će uživati u scenama seksa koje su snimane kao u nekim softcore pornićima.

Mene je ovaj film podsjetio na jedan događaj na nudističkoj plaži na Crvenoj Glavici. Bio je jedan čiča koji je tamo svakodnevno dolazio i kupao se na dijelu plaže na kom se ne kupaju pederi. Neke postarije gospođe su mu ponekad pravile društvo ali uglavnom je bio sam. Kako sam se početkom ljeta kupao baš na tom mjestu, a vikende provodio u obližnjem kampu mogao sam ga krišom posmatrati. Bio mi je zanimljiv način na koji komunicira sa ostalim ljudima na plaži i kako je potpuno opušten i prirodan. Iako je imao skoro 60 godina bio mi je privlačan.

Kada sam se naveče vraćao u kamp prolazeći pored njega pozovem ga na pivo. Pristane i odemo u kamp ispred šatora. Otvorimo limenke i počnemo sa pričom kako bi se bolje upoznali. Ja skinem kupaće i samo se obavijem sa peškirom, a on kada je to vidio pitao me da li bi mi smetalo da i on uradi isto jer je mnogo prijatnije nego u kupaće.
Ispričao mi je sve o bivšoj ženi, djeci, poslu , popili 3-4 piva i vidno raspoložen usred tog  str8 razgovora me pita: Jesi li kada pušio kurac?Nasmijah se i rekoh da jesam. On odgovori da nije i da nema namjeru ni da proba.
Vidim iskren je čovjek, a očito je i šta  želi pa mu rekoh da umoči kitu u pivo. Makne peškir umoči kitu u pivo i tako ja dobih pivo sa kite. Dobro je bilo:)

Stranger by the Lake (French: L'Inconnu du lac) is a 2013 French drama film directed by Alain Guiraudie. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where Guiraudie won the award for Best Director. The film also won the Queer Palm award. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
During the summer, on the edge of a lake surrounded by hills and forests and far from any houses, several male bathers, mostly naturists and gay, come to sunbathe. The woods behind the beach are a place where fleeting sexual encounters take place in a promiscuous atmosphere. Each day, Franck lays his towel on the white stony beach where he gets to know Henri (whose wife has just left him) and also Michel, a good-looking man to whom he is immediately attracted. But Michel is a murderer as Franck soon finds out when one evening, from the woods which overlook the lake, he spots him drowning Pascal, his current partner. Upset and afraid but also completely under the spell of the murderer, Franck keeps what he has seen a secret, becoming an accomplice to the man he desires. He soon gives in to his advances and falls passionately in love with him, yet all the while hiding his fear in case his lover should realise that he knows exactly what he did.

Two days later, the body of the drowned man is discovered and identified. His death is considered suspicious bringing a police inspector to the scene who interrogates Franck and Michel shortly after. Franck continues to protect Michel by stating that he didn't see anything unusual on the evening the man drowned. As the inspector continues his investigation, Franck and Michel's relationship progresses, even as Franck becomes increasingly frustrated by Michel's refusal to meet him anywhere other than at the beach. Henri, with whom Franck has built up an entirely platonic relationship so far, has an intuitive understanding of what has happened over the past few days, and warns Franck about Michel: "In your shoes, I would be very scared!" Franck is afraid of course, but when his psychopathic lover arrives during the discussion, he leaves Henri for Michel and sits down next to him further along the beach.

Later on, Franck goes swimming far from shore. Henri, making the most of Franck's absence, goes to see Michel and tells him he's convinced that the recent drowning wasn't an accident, that he has realised that Michel was the killer, and that the inspector will identify the murderer sooner or later. He looks at Michel knowingly and mockingly, then stands up and says he's going to go for a walk in the woods. As he enters the woods, he casts a glance back at Michel.

Franck who is still swimming in the lake, turns around suddenly towards the beach: Michel has disappeared and Henri too. Elsewhere the beach is now deserted. Overcome with a bad feeling, Franck swims back to the beach and hastens into the woods. He sees Michel leaving a leafy bush behind which he finds Henri dying and covered in blood: Michel has slit his throat. Franck takes off his tee-shirt and tries to stop the bleeding but Henri makes him understand that it's too late and that he got what he was looking for. With Henri dead, Franck is terrified and runs off into the woods to hide. Michel follows him and chances upon the inspector, who he hits violently and stabs in the stomach with a knife. Night falls and Franck remains crouched behind a bush from where he can see the killer walk past time and again just a few yards away from him, looking for him and calling for him to show himself and saying that he needs him, needs his love and that he wants to spend the night with him. Finally, Michel goes away to look for him further in the woods: the danger seems to have passed, so Franck finally stands up and calls his lover's name, with no reply. He waits in the darkness, overcome with fear and his heart beating fast, looking into the woods and the silence.