Misericordia

Miséricorde

French provocateur Alain Guiraudie returns with a typically uncategorisable entertainment – a rural homecoming story mixing passion, crime, mushrooms and bedroom farce to dizzily involving effect.

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Credits

  • Director-screenwriter

    Alain Guiraudie

  • With

    Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot

  • France-Spain-Portugal 2024. 103min

  • Courtesy of

    Les Films du Losange

  • Language

    French

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Alain Guiraudie’s films, including Stranger by the Lake, may be wildly diverse, but always show his flair for witty provocation and a fascination with the untamable nature of desire. Here, a young loner returns to his village, triggering a chain of intrigue involving a jealous son, intrusive cops and a priest with a very unorthodox take on guilt and transgression.

Jonathan Romney

Content warning

Contains nudity, sexual scenes and graphic violence.

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