Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.The Throbbing: Stranger by the LakeOne of the most talked-about films of 2014 (or 2013, for folks living in France), Stranger by the Lake might be the film Alfred Hitchcock would have made if he’d been allowed to show gay sex in his movies…if indeed Hitch had a stomach for it.
The film follows Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps), a horny gay man fond of frequenting a gay nude beach in France. One day he meets Michel (Christophe Paou), and the two have an instant, electric attraction for one another.Then Franck sees Michel kill a man.