After Lake unknown, Alain Guiraudie comes back to us with an erotic thriller where skillfully mingle burning desires and countless unsaid. Lost between remote countryside, queer desires and priapic priest, Mercy was presented in the Third Kind section of the 23rd edition of the NIFFF And he just got out of the theater. And guess what: it may be one of the best movies of the year!
Rifified in the village
Jérémy (Felix Kysyl) returns to his native village to pay his last tribute to his former deceased boss. His widow (Catherine Frot) offers to host a few days, so that he can go around his old local acquaintances. Yet, quickly, a fabric of unsaid, lies and desires will be formed around Jeremy, training him and the entire local rural community in a vortex of violence.
Alain Guiraudie is a name that exploded thanks to Lake unknown in 2013, a drama queer and believed widely noticed during its release. However, he was not at his test, notably with That old dream that moves (2001) – already queer, already erotic – or more recently with Stay vertical (2016). And there's a lot to bet his next movie. Mercy, submitted in advance to the NIFFF and now visible in theatres, will also make talk about him for the strong, resolutely absurd and aesthetic proposal he proposes.
Repetition comedy
MIsericord begins as a rural and intimate drama, centered on the figure of Jérémy, this former countryman who participated in the desertification of their village by following the inexorable rural exodus towards the largest cities. And very quickly, Guiraudie will signify with his camera an ambivalent mistrust around this disarrayed, half-trailer, half-alloyed figure, that everyone seems as eager as hate.
And a form of repetition will irreparably set up while a small gallery of characters (the widow, her son, an old friend, a parish priest and a duo of cops) begins to gravitate around the young man. These characters all represent a form of disrepair – old age, moral refoulement, attachment to a derailed religion, violence – to put in perspective with the ruins of their own village, passing (also) to die. This loop in which the characters seem trapped, this effect of repetition in encounters, in activities and interactions participate as much as a comic of rupture of tone quite enjoyable as of the introduction of a very particular rhythm, concentric and summing each turn a little more.
Trap of desires
MIsericord is built as a real trap around this central character who struggles to mask his feelings and the seismic waves of his desires, very little in phases with the morals of this rural and conservative patelin. Built from revelation to revelation, leaping from visual surprises to visual surprises, Mercy is built like a strange tale for adults, with the photograph slightly derailed and stained by its erotic impulses that never give in (almost) to the explicit.
One As Bestas and staggered, where threats never touch where they are expected. So please go blank of the most information possible, do not rely on the poster not necessarily very attractive and above all – especially! – do not eat mushroom domelet before your session... A beautiful surprise discovered at the edges of genres in the 23rd edition of the NIFFF, to devour now in theaters!
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