If you’ve never known what it’s like to be the only hot person in a small town, Alain Guiraudie’s “Misericordia” is here to show you just that, in all its darkly comic anguish. The “Stranger by the ...

Exclusive: The psychosexual comedy from the daring French filmmaker opens from Sideshow and Janus on March 21. “Stranger by the Lake” director Alain Guiraudie is back with another unsettling queer ...

Tell it one way and the premise of “Misericordia” sounds like a Sunday-night mystery on PBS: A man returns to a picturesque village for a funeral, but old friendships and resentments rear their heads ...

Foundational psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud argued that human psychology was driven by two instincts. The life instinct, Eros, fuels sex, reproduction, and pro-social behavior, while the death instinct, ...

Maverick director Alain Guiraudie rarely makes concessions. Through offbeat titles like 2013’s “Stranger by the Lake,” 2016’s “Staying Vertical” and 2022’s “Nobody’s Hero,” the French filmmaker has ...

A priest offers unusual forms of mercy in Alain Guiraudie’s rural thriller that evolves into a dark comedy. Credit: Courtesy of Sideshow And Janus Films Looking for an uncommon take on small-town life ...

film profile], screened in the Cannes Première section of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Cineuropa: How did you choose the location for the shoot and the story, and what characteristics were you ...

Awarded by a jury of critics and film professionals presided over by Gilles Jacob, the highly prestigious 2024 Louis-Delluc Prize for the year’s best French film was given to Misericordia [+ ] by ...

Alain Guiraudie’s “Misericordia,” Carlos Marqués-Marcet “They Will be Dust” and Yeo Siew Hua’s “Stranger Eyes” all won big at Spain’s auteurist haven Valladolid Film Festival on Saturday, in a second ...

Exclusive: Sideshow and Janus Films will open the French filmmaker's dark psychosexual comedy on March 21. If you’ve never known what it’s like to be the only hot person in a small town, Alain ...