Criterion Presents, formerly known as Janus Contemporaries, has announced that they will be adding the award-winning Misericordia to the collection on Blu-Ray and DVD on September 23, 2025. Named the best film of 2024 by Cahiers du cinéma and nominated for eight César awards, the tantalizing comic thriller is the most acclaimed masterwork yet from the ever-audacious Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake). The film stars Félix Kysyl and Catherine Frot. Get more details below!
Synopsis: 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.
Special Features
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Alain Guiraudie
- Trailer
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