A provocative stranger returns home in ‘Misericordia,’ a thriller free of convention
Alain Guiraudie’s marvelously unsentimental French thriller begins in a mood of death, one it never quite shakes as events pick up in a twisty way. A baker has died. He lived in the remote commune of Saint-Martial, making loaves for what appear to be a small number of neighbors. Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), at one time … Read more