Very best movie i ever watch

Fantastic!

Best movie of this year hands down!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A dear friend convinced me that my life could simply not be complete until I saw this "masterpiece." What a wrong turn that was.As a person who has participated in the past in the gay beach blanket bingo & bushes scene it never occurred to me that it was worthy of being classified as entertainment and packaged for money. It was mostly a sad scene but it served its purposes. It was liberating back in the day when I was still trying to memorize the various code systems for colored bandannas in your pocket that were supposed to tell you what the other guy was looking for. I know there are people who gladly pay for films like this. They are titillated much like those who tune in those "Flip This House For Big Money" cable shows. I never thought of kitchen demolition as fun but I suppose there's something for everyone.This is basically a gay porno film. Take out the graphic sex and nudity, and you have no film. You certainly wouldn't get invited to Sundance. But give your audience some graphic gay sex and a few moaning orgasms and the wine and cheese crowd will honor you. Don't be fooled.These are actors performing sex acts in close up for money. Is that acting? Or is it simply performing? Who are these actors who are so desperate to be a part of an "art" film that they will submit to being filmed taking another man's penis into their mouth? Or to allowing a close up of another man's fingers entering their anal cavity? Do you really need college level training or a quality workshop to prepare for these roles? No! All you need is the ability to have an erection and then orgasm apparently, on cue.In one scene early on two men are having sex in the bushes. Another man stands a distance away being the voyeur and fondling himself. They turn and ask him to leave citing a need for privacy. Uh...yer in the bushes at a public beach, boys! You want privacy--get a room! One of the main components of dunes sex is being watched for Heaven's sake.Pornography on film has its place. In the hands of actors and directors who know what they are doing it can be quite satisfying in an odd way. But it is at least honest. It comes with no pretense. Actors are hired specifically, for money to perform certain sex acts. (God help the performer who causes the camera person to miss the money shot.) No one thinks it's art and no one thinks their doing a remake of Hamlet. In too much of what we see these days graphic sex (both real and simulated) substitutes for good writing. Game Of Thrones, Masters of Sex, Looking and on and one have just become the "sex and nude scenes of the week" shows. And they are becoming boring in it too.To paraphrase the character Mrs. Baker in Butterflies Are Free, all this sex in the bushes may be realistic but that doesn't make it entertainment. Now in fairness this movie is not as bad as others in this genre. 9 Songs which was dopey and boring and had nothing to do with songs. Or Intimacy which was everything but. Or the totally awful The Lifeguard or Twelve-Thirty. No, it's not that bad. But close.A final note to future directors everywhere. I don't think you really, really need to show me guys sixty-nining in close up for me to grasp what you want me to know in telling your story. No, not really. But if you insist on taking my money for what I can see for--free--at thousands of sites on the internet you owe me this. Give me some buff actors from various ethnic backgrounds with some serious man equipment to perform these scenes will ya? I can see the pasty, white, less than well endowed guys in this film any morning of the week at the gym. And probably better. At least give me that before you take the cash.

there is something very unsettling about this film and it is there almost from the beginning and never leaves. it is as if you are constantly expecting something dark to happen. whereas in other mysterious films music scores are used to alert the viewer with foreboding music, this film has absolutely no music. the use of this technique is stunningly genius. the sparsity of the characters adds to the eeriness. there is adequate portrayal of a variety of personalities although it contains some graphic sex scenes, this film is not about sex, but more about humanity and the darker motives behind the quest for sexual excitement

I am not a gay man, and so I can say that this film had a beauty, it wasn't porn, it was about gay men on a lake, doing what any couple's do, talking etc etc.The film didn't have a core story, it was like watching a poem without words, with the lake being the observer.If find continental films very poetic in most case, very philosophical, this movie tended to be this way.Rating this movie is not easy because it did have quality. I have given it 4.It wasn't porn, it was slow, chatty, highly sexual, and it gave an overview of the world of gay men.

While the content might be off-putting to some, STRANGER BY THE LAKE is a somewhat effective thriller that toys with its audience by taking things slow. However, in my opinion, things were a little TOO slow at times. The main drive to the plot doesn't really happen until about halfway through and the narrative doesn't move forward any until about two-thirds of the way in. Up until that point, it's mostly just a lot of dialogue-driven character development.. There was also no score, which I thought might have helped. Still, I enjoyed the naturalistic photography. Overall, I found it slightly boring until the plot really kicked in, but the film is not without its merits. Recommended for non-prudes who enjoy French cinema. I don't really see this film having that wide of an audience, though.