

Misericordia

Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.
[Filmin] It's endowed with a strange sense of humor that makes it particularly intense, but also singularly entertaining. Alain Guiraudie is adept at wrapping his characters in wooded spaces that seem like representations of their own personalities, twisted and dark, lonely and threatening, but where one can find beauty and the life that springs from a buried body. It's a portrait of rural life that exposes singular identities, in a film that accommodates its own particularities as a mundane thriller.