Alain Guiraudie is one of the most unique and transgressive voices in cinema, and this deepest France mixture of black comedy and melodrama, steeped in dark desires, again reveals his penchant for genre-hopping and narrative unpredictability.

Winner of the Prix Louis-Delluc for Best French Film of 2024

Best Film of the Year' Cahiers du Cinéma

The best queer-themed NYFF Main Slate FIlm, nor surprisingly, was from the daring and gifted French auteur Alain Guiraudie, who made one of the best films of the last 20 years, "Stranger By the Lake." Once again he tapped into his neo-Hitchcockian, devilishly satiric style with his latest work." Frank J. Avela, The Edge

'A sickly funny thriller. It concludes on a note that is perfectly and pitilessly perverse.' Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal

"In the director’s best work, Guiraudie’s trademark is to infuse genre dalliances with mordant wit and a deliciously peculiar, defiant queerness. And while it may initially appear to be straightforward…nobody could ever accuse this increasingly twisted psychodrama of playing it straight.” Jessica Kiang, Variety

"Surprisingly hilarious, yet unsurprisingly horny."  David Fear, Rolling Stones 

★★★★ 'Alain Guiraudie defies neat categorisation with his shapeshifting eighth feature about morality, crime and queer desire. Chabrol would have approved' Little White Lies

★★★★ 'This stirring crime dramedy is one of those films that adamantly refuses to be pigeon-holed, and just when you think you have figured out, where it is going, it takes an unexpected turn' The Upcoming

★★★★ 'Philosophical musing on guilt meets bedroom farce - Misericordia is a very genial offering from a singular auteur' Financial Times

★★★★ 'A heady and murky marriage of enigmatic motivations, sexual and otherwise' Irish Times

'Mercy is a messy business in Alain Guiraudie’s teasing rural melodrama. A genre-fluid crime story about murder, desire and suspicious mushrooms' Sight & Sound

'Wonderfully twisted queer noir is about the chaos of being the hottest person in a small town'  Yahoo News

'Alain Guiraudie’s latest exploration of sex and death is an unmissable thriller' Collider

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