In his feature film 'Misericordia', director Alain Guiraudie, the master of the sensual and abysmal provincial narrative, also weaves a subtle web of inhibited lust and erotic manipulation - and once again unravels it with bizarre twists and absurd humor. His mythically and spiritually charged film drama is inspired by Hitchcock and Pasolini, is not interested in genre boundaries and follows its very own moral. A masterpiece of contemporary queer cinema from France.
After ten years, Jérémie Pastor (Félix Kysyl) returns to his hometown of Saint-Martial in south-eastern France to attend the funeral of village baker Jean-Pierre. As a teenager, Jérémie was his apprentice - and perhaps even more. Vincent, the deceased's latently violent son, greets Jérémie with suspicion, but also with an underlying desire. The baker's widow Martine Rigal (Catherine Frot) offers him a place to sleep and seeks his physical closeness more directly. The mysterious returnee also creates ambivalent sexual tensions with farmer Walter Bonchamp (David Ayala) and the curious priest Philippe Griseul (Jacques Develay). When Vincent (Jean-Baptiste Durand) disappears without a trace, suspicion quickly falls on Jérémie...
