MISERICORDIA | Black Box Filmmuseum Düsseldorf - Französischer Filmclub

In the organizer's words:

MISERICORDIA

F 2024 - 104 min - OmU - digitalDCP - 18+ - R/B: Alain Guiraudie - C: Claire Mathon - D: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Serge Richard, Jacques Develay and others.

The protagonist Jéréme returns to a remote village in the southwest of France for a funeral. After the funeral service, he stays in the village more out of inner necessity than a sense of duty - a kind of foreign body in a community where every relationship is charged with desire, mistrust and underlying violence. And in this situation, a murder takes place.

The result is a subtle, cross-genre thriller in which classic elements of suspense are combined with a deep analysis of desire and morality. Guiraudie is less interested in the actual solving of the crime than in the complex relationship structures in the village - between guilt, repression and recognition. The ambivalent atmosphere, oscillating between idyll and threat, plays a particularly important role and supports the almost labyrinthine narrative model, which is underpinned by an underlying sense of unease.

Introduction: Alice Girin (Institut français). In cooperation with the Institut français Düsseldorf.

Price information:

Admission 7 Euro - reduced 5 Euro - with Black Box Pass 4 Euro - ticket reservation Tel 0211 - 8992232