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, 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 and venomously angry son, while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest.

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.With Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Jacques Develay.

"While it may initially appear to be straightforward, nobody could ever accuse this increasingly twisted psychodrama of playing it straight." (Variety)

"'Misericordia' finds Alain Guiraudie revisiting old standbys under a relatively conventional set of aesthetic strategies. Fortunately, the ideas roiling under the former wildman’s newly placid surfaces are as potent as ever." (Slant Magazine)

"A fantastically tender, alluring, and peculiar small-town tale of murder, desire, and repression." (RogerEbert.com)

"Every once in a while, you go into a film like Misericordia (Miséricorde) where the ride is so wild, so unpredictable and so outrageous that good and bad seem far too binary of terms to dissect what just unfolded before you." (Loud and Clear)

Saturday, April 12
Doors 7:30 pm | Movie 8:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

MISERICORDIA "Miséricorde" (Alain Guiraudie, 2024 / 104 mins / NR / French with EST) Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.