French Film: Misericordia,
May 16 - 18 at OKCMOA

• Voted the best film of 2024 by the iconic French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, this darkly comic triumph from acclaimed writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) is a deliciously twisted tale of sexual repression and murder in a picturesque French village

• In French with English subtitles (104 minutes)

• “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; Marguerite, The Rose Maker) 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.” -Janus Films