Misericordia
A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Returning to his rural hometown to attend the funeral of the mentor he loved, enigmatic, sexually fluid drifter Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) stirs up long-simmering feelings of lust, jealousy, and rage among those he left behind—including the dead man’s widow (Catherine Frot), her hot-tempered son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), and a curiously protective local priest (Jacques Develay) with whom Jérémie forges a twisted bond. Amid the evocatively earthy milieu, Guiraudie constructs a slippery, continuously surprising moral universe where love and hatred, eroticism and violence, spiritual grace and mortal sin, are intimately entwined.
Criterion Premieres is a selection of new theatrical films presented on Blu-ray and DVD, released in association with the Criterion Channel.
Special Features
- Meet the Filmmakers: Alain Guiraudie, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Notes on Misericordia by critic Imogen Sara Smith
Special Features
- Meet the Filmmakers: Alain Guiraudie, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Notes on Misericordia by critic Imogen Sara Smith
Cast
- Félix Kysyl
- Jérémie
- Catherine Frot
- Martine
- Jean-Baptiste Durand
- Vincent
- Jacques Develay
- The Abbot
- David Ayala
- Walter
- Serge Richard
- Jean-Pierre
- Tatiana Spivakova
- Annie
- Elio Lunetta
- Kilian
- Sébastian Faglain
- The policeman
- Salomé Lopes
- His young colleague
Credits
- Director
- Alain Guiraudie
- Writer
- Alain Guiraudie
- Artistic direction
- Laurent Lunetta
- Cinematography
- Claire Mathon
- Production design
- Emmanuelle Duplay
- Costumes
- Khadija Zeggaï
- Hair and makeup
- Michel Vautier
- Assistant director
- François Labarthe
- Casting
- Laetitia Goffi
- Casting
- Julie Allione
- Sound
- Vasco Pedroso
- Sound
- Jordi Ribas
- Sound
- Jeanne Delplancq
- Sound
- Branko Nesko
- Editing
- Jean-Christophe Hym
- Original score
- Marc Verdaguer
- Produced by
- Charles Gillibert
- Associate producer
- Romain Blondeau
- Associate producer
- Mélanie Biessy
Trailer for Misericordia
