2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alain Guiraudie’s The Unknown Lake

#48. Alain Guiraudie’s The Unknown Lake

Gist: “In this love story, two men meet in a nudist resort on the banks of a lake, but one of them is a murderer.” Alain Guiraudie is one of the most interesting French filmmakers almost no one has heard of, winning the praises of Jean-Luc Godard for his short 2001 feature, That Old Dream That Moves (“The best film at the Festival de Cannes.”) and continuing on to make some of the freshest queer films in, well, ever.

Prediction: One day Guiraudie will get out of the Fortnight – three of his last four feature have played in Cannes, and they’ve all been put there – and they day may well be now…but our money is safely placed on it being four for four. If it winds up in Un Certain Regard, it’s an upgrade well-earned and overdue.