STRANGER BY THE LAKE Screens Wednesday Night at QFest St. Louis

QFest St. Louis continues with STRANGER BY THE LAKE at 9:15 pm Wednesday April 30th

QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1^st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, MO) 

QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary LGBTQ-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.

STRANGER BY THE LAKE screens at 9:15pm Wednesday April 30th

An intensely erotic Hitchcockian thriller, STRANGER BY THE LAKE tells the story of Franck, who spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular gay cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. The woods behind the beach are a place where fleeting, promiscuous sexual encounters frequently take place. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man, and falls blindly in love. When Franck witnesses Michel drowning his current partner, he chooses to ignore the danger and continue his passionate but potentially lethal relationship, becoming an accomplice to the man he desires. The Boston Globe writes: “Alain Guiraudie’s moral tale is so restrained and atmospheric that the nudity and graphic sex don’t upstage the creepy mood of seductive, inescapable doom.”

STRANGER BY THE LAKE is shown with: The Best Friend (O melhor amigo) a 17-minute short from Brazil directed by Allan Deberton, Brazil – On the first day of their school vacation, Lucas and Felipe decide to go to the beach.

The STRANGER BY THE LAKE screening is sponsored by Dennis Gorg

Tirdad Derakhshani at The Philadelphia Inquirer says of STRANGER BY THE LAKE:

 “A stunning minimalist erotic thriller that explores with arresting photography and economical use of dialogue how human identity is defined, and sometimes imprisoned, by our desires, drives, and passions.”

Ray Pride at Newcity writes:

“Classically constructed, as rigid in its construction of suspense as any recent thriller, Alain Guiraudie’s “Stranger by the Lake” is a masterful work, uncluttered yet lush, formally mechanistic, yet always surprising.”

A Facebook event page for the screening can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/480197255415424/

For a complete schedule of the QFest film’s visit Cinema St. Louis’ QFest page HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/499298603515622/

Contact artistic director Chris Clark for additional details or questions: chris@cinemastlouis.org or 314.289.4152.

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