Misericordia

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Misericordia

2025

1h 44m

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The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake), 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 casually insinuate himself into his mentor's family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising--and ultimately beneficial--friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). In Guiraudie's quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire. The French director is at the top of his game in Misericordia, again upending all genre expectations.

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Critics Consensus

Navigating a diabolical story with fleet-footed tonal mastery, Misericorida is another superb foray into the dangers of desire from writer-director Alain Guiraudie.

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Ben Walters

Sight & Sound

Nov 5

Guiraudie, though, takes Hitchcock’s deadpan sensibility to another level, keeping characters’ motivations and desires ambiguous to us as well as each other, leaving it unclear whether the joke is on us, them or everyone.

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Jake Wilson

Sydney Morning Herald

May 19

4/5

However high the stakes, the tone remains strangely equable – as in Alfred Hitchcock’s blackly comic The Trouble With Harry, another autumn movie, where vitality and morbidity are so interwoven it’s impossible to tell them apart.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

04/10/2025

2.5/5

Misericordia feels like a big metaphysical shrug, sluggish to the point of lethargy.

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Mitchell Beaupre

The Film Stage

Jan 1

Disarmingly funny, uniquely suspenseful, and captivatingly amorphous, Misericordia keeps you guessing from first frame to last.

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Calum Baker

Radio Times

Dec 24

4/5

Eventually, things drift past any obvious logic, but it simply doesn't matter; Guiraudie and his top-drawer cast pull it all together with such brio that the characters' bizarre actions seem to make perfect sense.

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Filipe Freitas

Always Good Movies

Dec 9

2/5

Both the story and the style end up lumbering and graceless, sketching a web of desires and suspicions that feels amorphous, undercooked, and oddly weightless.

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Melissa

04/05/2025

A wild film that looks conventional from the outside but the deeper it goes into the lives of the people at the center, the more disturbing revelations surface.

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Maya F

@Madpotter Jan 13

Beautiful, interesting storyline. Quiet, intense and absurd.

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Glen S

@RT79105206 Dec 28

'Best film of the year'?? lol I've seen hundreds of movies and this is up in the top 5 for being the worst I've ever seen. Dull, boring, slow, gross, etc etc. I watched it at twice the speed so thankfully I didn't waste a lot of time.

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Kevin L

@Lakeman Dec 14

An odd bird, this one. I wasn't liking it much until the priest character makes his pitch and gives his reasoning for his actions. I appreciate the ethical questions it raises, and the dialogue used to make not only compelling comments on those questions, but also to express the priest's personal desire to aid Jeremy. Strong performances in general. It's another case of actors I have very little if any experience with, which can help in creating and entering a 'world' that's believeable more easily. Now I get the poster art. 3.3 stars

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Garry A

@heavyg Oct 11

This movie is so absurd it's funny. As preposterous as it was i was thoroughly entertained.

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J C

@JC2827 Jul 25

I didn’t make it through 30 minutes before turning Misericordia off. I just can’t sit through a film like this. The main character is an absolute idiot. There’s no way I could root for him long enough to watch the movie to the end. If there’s one thing I truly can’t stand, it’s stupidity. I felt like Osborne Cox from Burn After Reading. Spoiler Alert: The moment that broke it for me was when the main character kills his childhood friend in broad daylight in a tiny town. That was it. Completely unbelievable, even for someone as reckless or foolish as this character is meant to be. At that point, the film just lost all credibility for me.

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The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake), 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 casually insinuate himself into his mentor's family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising--and ultimately beneficial--friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). In Guiraudie's quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire. The French director is at the top of his game in Misericordia, again upending all genre expectations.

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Producer: Charles Gillibert
Screenwriter: Alain Guiraudie
Distributor: Sideshow / Janus Films
Production Co: CG Cinéma
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 21, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 10, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $181.5K
Runtime: 1h 44m