Have you seen Stranger By The Lake? It's a French drama that won the Queer Palm at Cannes...
It's set at a summertime lakeshore gay cruising area where men sunbathe nude and cruise in the nearby foliage.
Franck never admits to what he saw, but can't resist his attraction to Michel and he keeps coming back every day to have sex with him, tempting his own fate, and putting everyone at risk. At one point, a detective investigating the drowning sums up the way this community seems to show love to one another, and it's pretty dead on.
Stranger By The Lake saves on locations - it never leaves the claustrophobic lakeside. And besides the nudity and non-simulated actual gay sex, it's a slow-burner, which is to say Simon found it just boring. But when I sit down for a French film, I'm prepared to just sit down. I found it to be an insightful exploration and indictment of not just how gay men treat one another, but how we treat ourselves. In not unsimilar circumstances, we can watch someone die of a GHB overdose and still take GHB; we can watch friends die of AIDS and still have unprotected sex.
More than any other minority groups, gays love to circle the inferno. We dance around the edge to see how close we can come without actually being claimed by the volcano. I've done it myself. The risk is the thrill.
There's a smoldering new superstar catching fire in the new Hunger Games! The franchise is loaded with attractive young men, but it's not the gorgeous, charisma-free Hemsworth clone. Nor is it adorable, edible, twinkie dream Josh Hutcherson. Goldilocks has found something just right in the tantalising in the latest addition to the cast, Sam Claflin. He plays the seductively mischievous Finnick Odair.
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