Film Days of the Mediterranean: MISÉCORDE – MISERCORDIA

39th Mediterranean Film Festival 22.1. – 2.2.2025

France 2024, dir: alain Guiraudie, 103 minutes, D: Félix Kysyl, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Catherine Frot a.o., French original with German subtitles

Karlstorkino, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 3, 69126 Heidelberg, admission € 10, concessions € 7.50, members Medienforum € 6, advance ticket sales online: www.fi lmtage-mittelmeer.de

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 priest Grisolles. Then an incident occurs and events take a turn for the worse. In his new film, Alain Guiraudie, the master of the sensually abysmal provincial tale, once again weaves a subtle web of inhibited lust and erotic manipulation – and unravels it 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!