“Stranger by the lake” Director Alain Guiraudie is back with another worrying queer exploration, this time with 2024 Cannes premiere ”Mistricordia. “Here Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) comes back to his hometown in the countryside in France to mourn the death of its former manager. Who he may also have been in love with. It is complicated, but if you have never known what it is like to be the only hot person in a small town, Jérémie’s arrival makes it less than desirable and even dangerous. Especially as the urban population, including a local bishop, begins to party on him.
The film Opens in selected theaters from Sideshow and Janus films on March 21, with Guiraudie traveling to the United States for Q & AS. Indieview divides the trailer exclusively below.
When he returns to Saint-Martial, Jérémie stops longer than one should, and is re-connected with his boss’s now Widowed wife and his childhood’s best friend Vincent (Jean-Baptiste Durand). Vincent is the son of said widow, Martine (Catherine Frot) and previously jealousy, which leads to possible murder, as Jérémie is wearing his welcome with the group. Jérémie attaches to a local bishop (Jacques Develay) during the process and sends everyone, including the village priest, to a psychose -ecsual frenzy.
As Guiraudie told IndieWire back at Cannes 2024“Misericordia” is his “first movie without an explicit darling scene in a long time.” It really is something from the director for 2013’s “Stranger by the Lake”, where a deal between a handsome, stupid cruiser and a must -have potential murderer turned into one of Sexiest, deadliest and most explicit movies from the 2000s so far. Like “Stranger by the lake”, Guiraudie relies on his Hitchcockian Arsenal of moral ambiguity and fast cuts surrounding a queer man’s destructive presence.
After “Stranger by the lake”, Guiraudie also wrote and directed “Staying Vertical” and “Nobody’s Hero”, but “Misericordia” gives him back to his main interest: Queer’s wish.
“At the age of 60 – yes, I’m not really 60, but almost – I would like to say that this movie was in a kind of way on the strength of what I would call teenage fantasies,” said Guiraudie via translator. “Well, the idea of falling in love with your mother to one’s best friend or father to one’s best friend. You have this whole picture of desire and eroticism because it is linked to religion based on childhood or teenage. ”
Here is a more detailed synopsis: “I ‘Misericordia’, the intertwined ambiguities of love and death, haunts the winding exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), a shaker outside work who has driven back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former chief . When he stays long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins His late mentor’s family. He lives with the kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and is persecuted by the toxic envy son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while building a strange but meaningful friendship with a pragmatic local priest (Jacques Develay) Tangles small -town joy to a web of violent criminal behavior and erotic lust. “
