To_au84 I've read the glowing reviews, and read the many awards that this film has received and I just do not understand it. It completely confuses me.This film is devoid of any substance. There is absolutely nothing in the movie that would make it a thriller. If you call it a thriller, it's a thriller without the thrill. It's a drama with very mild drama. There is not enough sex to be a porn, and there is not enough drama to be a drama. It's just nothing.Sex is sex. I don't have an issue with it. Some of the scenes you think "yeah, OK, I get it, that's enough now".The whole film I sat thinking "ok something is going to happen soon" but no it never happened. The ending just irritated me like no other film's ending has ever done before. How could someone be so stupid. No one would do that.The 2 I gave was purely because the setting of Lake of Sainte-Croix was beautiful.

PJ Castellaneta This movie made me very nervous - a lot of male sex and nudity out in the open, on the beach, and with no protection. No sunscreen. At all. Shocking! (haven't the French ever heard of skin cancer?)While it sometimes verges into Serious Movie territory, breaking sexual taboos in a very realistic and honest way, too much of the film is just silly and arbitrary. The randomness of actions among the characters seemed guided more by the writer's keyboard than by actual human behavior. Which is a shame because so many of the film's elements: acting, direction, music, editing et al. are is so first-rate, and many of the scenes on their own feel so emotionally authentic.But in a world where anything can happen for no apparent reason, nothing carries any import. And then one's mind is free to contemplate the clumsiness of the film's obvious symbolism and how uncomfortable it must have been for the actors to have to sit on that rocky lakeshore bare-assed.And eventually, it all just spirals out of control. Which made me feel sad, but for all the wrong reasons.

jameson129-848-491951 This is one of those gay films that has no backbone, the sex scenes are really the only thing worth mentioning. The plot is so thin, I felt NOTHING for the characters, you already know he killed the man, so where's the mystery? I understand it's about passion, but it's completely over the top. Maybe I'm jaded, but the main character falls in love with the person he knows is the killer after one hook up. I don't even feel this is worth writing any more about since I wasted enough time watching it.There are plenty of great gay films, but this is not one of them.

simone6403 Rarely does a film show such brilliance in writing and directing as this. Alain Guiraudie does both. This thriller and drama is right out of the pages of Alfred Hitchcock . Plus he leaves it to the viewer to decide the fate of two central characters. And, the question of "Why" for a third. His control of his audience is masterful. As soon as you think you know the outcome, he pulls you away in another direction, only to end with the task of figuring out what really happened. But don't fear frustration. You are not left hanging for long. There is only one logical ending, and eventually he will let you figure it out. Brilliant!