Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake, from France. Yet where the other two offerings followed urban gay characters in the countryside, this understated, smartly crafted gem about death and ...

Alain Guiraudie, the French writer-director, shapes his penchant for queer subject matter into something that owes much to the cool mysteries of Claude Chabrol.

Alain Guiraudie broke through with “Stranger by the Lake.” In his new movie, “Misericordia,” eroticism and death are also intimately entangled. By Carlos Aguilar Carnal urges drive the ...