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Ali Benzekri - Letterbox

A ★★★★½ review of Misericordia (2024)Everyone is horny and complicit in Alain Guiraudie’s latest “comedy”. A priest, a grieving mother and so many reticent men play games around a murder story. Toerema dans la campagne. May be the best film of the festival!

Isaac Feldberg - Letterbox

A ★★★★½ review of Misericordia (2024)Just over a decade ago, Alain Guiraudie won Cannes’ best director prize in the Un Certain Regard section—along with the Queer Palm—for “Stranger by the Lake,” a spellbinding erotic thriller in which sex and death swirl together at a gay cruising spot. With “Miséricorde” (“Misericordia”), debuted in the Cannes Première section, he has crafted another elegantly haunting dissection of the power dynamics shaping queer sexuality, this time in the form of an fantastically tender, alluring, and peculiar small-town tale of murder, desire, and repression. In the rural village of Saint-Martial, the death of a local baker prompts the return of

Film Land Empire - Letterbox

A ★★★★ review of Misericordia (2024)MISÉRICORDE: Giraudie sets up a web of carnal desires in a small village and the atmospheric nearby woods for a singular, deceptively low-key but captivating psychological study with a slight surreal touch. Finally a return to form for the French director #Cannes2024

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