Official US Trailer + Poster for Sly Thriller ‘Misericordia’ from France
by Alex Billington
February 22, 2025
Source: YouTube
“Surprisingly hilarious yet unsurprisingly horny.” Janus Films has revealed an official US trailer and a new poster for the acclaimed French indie film titled Misericordia, which first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival last year. This thriller from French director Alain Guiraudie (also of Strange by the Lake) also played at the Telluride, Toronto, New York, London, and Busan Film Festivals last year. In the film, Jérémie returns to his hometown for an old baker friend’s funeral, staying even longer after. In this village where so much goes unsaid, he must contend with rumours and suspicion, until he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the center of a police investigation. Starring Félix Kysyl as Jérémie, with Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay, Jean-Baptiste Durand, and David Ayala. In Alain Guiraudie’s quietly carnal world, violence & eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior seems like a natural extension of physical desire. They add: “the French director is at the top of his game in Misericordia, again upending all genre expectations.” The film has earned rave reviews from many critics during its festival run, with many quotes seen in this trailer including calling it a “sickly funny thriller.” Opens in limited theaters this March.
Here’s the official US trailer (+ poster) for Alain Guiraudie’s film Misericordia, direct from YouTube:
The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie, who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) & venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). Misericordia, also known as Miséricorde in French, is written and directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie, director of the films Sunshine for the Poor, That Old Dream That Moves, No Rest for the Brave, Time Has Come, The King of Escape, Stranger by the Lake, Staying Vertical, Nobody’s Hero previously, and other short films. Produced by Charles Gillibert. This initially premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival last year in the Cannes Première section. The already opened in France last fall. Janus Films debuts Guiraudie’s Misericordia film in select US theaters on March 21st, 2025. Visit the film’s site.
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