Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn...
This is Alain Guiraudie's triumphant return to the scene of his previous great deeds in 2024: Misericordia was one of the Cannes Film Festival's standout and disturbingly unusual features, foreshadowing a welcome revisiting of the streamlined, murderous perversity of Stranger by the Lake (2013). In his new work, Guiraudie fills the genre's limitations with a wry wit and a particularly defiant queer motif. And while at first glance it may seem a simple story, no one could accuse the French master and his increasingly twisted psychodrama of playing by the rules.
International Competition
Alain Guiraudie
Alain Guiraudie was born in 1964 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in a farming family. Guiraudie was fascinated by art as a child and directed his first short film in 1990. Five more films followed over the next decade, but widespread critical acclaim came only in 2001, when Guiraudie directed his first feature film, That Old Dream That Moves. It won the prestigious Prix Jean-Vigo and was screened at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, with Jean-Luc Godard praising it as "the best film of the Cannes Film Festival". Alain Guiraudie achieved widespread critical and audience success with his fourth feature film, Stranger by the Lake (2013). With his characteristic blend of naturalism and narrative tone, with Misericordia, he has directed an intricate thriller that explores how desire can blind the individual, even in the most intense situations.
in French
with English and Hungarian subtitles
Cannes Film Festival 2024 (Cannes Première)
Nobody’s Hero (2022)
Staying Vertical (2017)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
That Old Dream That Moves (2001)
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Cast: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Jacques Develay, David Ayala, Serge Richard
Cinematography: Claire Mathon
Screenwriter: Alain Guiraudie
Producer:Charles Gillibert, Romain Blondeau, Olivier Père, Joaquim Sapinho, Marta Vieira Alves, Isabelle Tillou
Editor: Jean-Christophe Hym
Music: Marc Verdaguer
Hungarian Distributor: -
Colour: colour
Run time: 102 mins
