Film Days of the Mediterranean: MISÉRICORDE – MISERICORDIA

38th Film Days of the Mediterranean 22.1. – 2.2.2025 Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3, 69126 Heidelberg, admission € 10, reduced € 7.50, members Medienforum € 6, advance ticket sales online: www.filmtage-mittelmeer.de or at the Karlstorkino (one hour before the first screening until the last film) or at the Montpellier-Haus (during opening hours). After ten years, Jérémie returns to his hometown of Saint-Martial in south-eastern France to attend the funeral of the village baker. As a teenager, Jérémie was his apprentice. Jérémie is greeted with suspicion by Vincent, the son of the deceased. Martine, the baker’s widow, offers him a place to sleep and seeks his physical closeness. The mysterious returnee also creates ambivalent tensions with farmer Walter and the curious priest Grisolles. Then an incident occurs and events take a turn for the worse. Alain Guiraudie, master of the sensually abysmal provincial tale, weaves a subtle web of inhibited lust and erotic manipulation – and unravels it again with bizarre twists and absurd humor. His mythically and spiritually charged thriller-comedy is inspired by Hitchcock and Pasolini, is not interested in genre boundaries and follows its very own moral. A masterpiece of contemporary French cinema that has already been celebrated in Cannes!

France, Spain, Portugal 2024

Director: Alain Guiraudie

Cast: Félix Kysyl, Jean-Baptiste

Durand, Catherine Frot, David Ayala et al.

103 min. Original language

Alain Guiraudie (*1964 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue) He made several short films in the 90s and his first feature film DU SOLEIL POUR LES GUEUX in 2001. In 2012, LE ROI DE L’ÉVASION screened at the Mediterranean Film Festival. In 2013, Guiraudie celebrated a great success at the Cannes Film Festival with DER FREMDE AM SEE, where he was awarded the Director’s Prize and the Queer Palm . Since then, his films have been shown at the major festivals.