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TL00001324476. Boussageon , Alexandre ( 2014 ), ‘ L’Inconnu du Lac : Le Sexe et l’effroi selon Alain Guiraudie ’, L’Obs , www.nouvelobs.com/cinema/20130612.CIN3340/l-inconnu-du-lac-le-sexe-et-l-effroi-selon-alain-guiraudie.html (accessed 2 September 2021
"What does queer signify in twenty-first-century French film? How are lesbian, gay, and trans* characters represented on screen? The book responds to these questions via the cinema of five emblematic directors: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz, and Céline Sciamma. From gay sex at a nudist beach to lesbian love at a high school swimming pool, from gay road trips across France to transgender journeys through time, the films treated in this study raise a host of key questions about queerness in this century. From award-winners such as Stranger by the Lake and Portrait of a Lady on Fire to the lesser-known Family Tree and Open Bodies, these productions gesture toward an optimistic future for LGBTQ characters and for the world in which they live, love, and desire. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of queerness across the directors’ careers, from their earliest, often unknown works to their later, major films. Whether they are white, beur, or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans*, or queer, the characters open up oppressive notions of hetero- and cisnormativity to something new, something unexpected, and something oriented towards the future.
and Jacques Martineau, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz, and Céline Sciamma. Each of these directors has made a corpus of films that could, largely or entirely, be labelled ‘queer’. Though organized by director, this book does not assume strict coherence over time in any director’s corpus, nor does it assume full incoherence either. Rather, each directorial corpus of films is taken as a kind of