Known for genre-bending films that feel equally indebted to social realism and surrealism, Alain Guiraudie has emerged as one of French cinema’s most singular voices. Drawn to working class characters and rural settings, the filmmaker situates his mysterious explorations of desire and sexuality in social spheres on the brink of disappearing. From his debut That Old Dream That Moves (2000) to Stranger by the Lake (2013) and Staying Vertical (2016), Alain has fashioned an anarchic cinema of nostalgia and longing.