Directed by Alain Guiraudie

Directed by Alain Guiraudie

5 Episodes

To mark the release of his acclaimed latest, MISERICORDIA, we’re revisiting the daring, dreamlike, darkly comic, and defiantly queer films of director Alain Guiraudie, who has carved out a distinctive place within French cinema through his transgressive explorations of sex, desire, death, and alienation. While his (homo)erotically charged THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES was hailed by no less than Jean-Luc Godard as the best film at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, it wasn’t until more than a decade later that Guiraudie made his international breakthrough with the art-house hit STRANGER BY THE LAKE, a spellbinding, open-air thriller that merged Hitchcockian menace with an explicit gay gaze. Refusing to tame his wildest impulses for commercial appeal, Guiraudie’s follow-ups, the surreal rural fairy tale STAYING VERTICAL and the idiosyncratic sex comedy NOBODYS HERO, display the audacious tonal shifts and underlying sense of mystery that make his work uniquely fascinating.

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Directed by Alain Guiraudie

5 Episodes

  • Stranger by the Lake
    1:40:32
    Stranger by the Lake
    Episode 1

    Stranger by the Lake

    Episode 1

    Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2013 • France
    Starring Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao.

    The critically acclaimed STRANGER BY THE LAKE has been described as a modern-day Hitchcockican masterpiece. A picturesque cruising spot in the countryside of France sets the scene f...

  • That Old Dream That Moves
    52:14
    That Old Dream That Moves
    Episode 2

    That Old Dream That Moves

    Episode 2

    Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2001 • France
    Starring Pierre Louis-Calixte, Jean-Marie Combelles, Jean Ségani

    Alain Guiraudie’s’s singularly mesmerizing critical breakthrough unites many of the director’s signature concerns—queer desire, working-class rural life, and the dreamlike dimensions of t...

  • Nobody’s Hero
    1:40:03
    Nobody’s Hero
    Episode 3

    Nobody’s Hero

    Episode 3

    Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2022 • France
    Starring Jean-Charles Clichet, Noémie Lvovsky, Iliès Kadri

    Director Alain Guiraudie’s typically subversive spin on the Gallic sex farce blends ribald comedy with sharp social satire for a provocative and unpredictable look at everything from sexism to ...

  • Staying Vertical
    1:41:17
    Staying Vertical
    Episode 4

    Staying Vertical

    Episode 4

    Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2016 • France
    Starring Damien Bonnard, India Hair, Raphaël Thiéry

    Alain Guiraudie’s startling follow-up to his international breakthrough STRANGER BY THE LAKE is a hypnotic, wondrously surreal odyssey through the continuum of human desire and sexuality. While on a j...

  • Sunshine for the Scoundrels
    58:22
    Sunshine for the Scoundrels
    Episode 5

    Sunshine for the Scoundrels

    Episode 5

    Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2001 • France
    Starring Isabelle Girardet, Alain Guiraudie, Jean-Paul Jourdàa

    One of two midlength films (along with THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES) that director Alain Guiraudie released in 2001, this offbeat, sexually fluid fable unfolds against the wide-open landscapes...

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