As lead review for Sight and Sound’s April 2025 issue, I wrote about Alain Giraudie’s unsettling thriller Misericordia, something of a companion piece to his 2013 feature, Stranger by the Lake. The review can be read online here is reproduced with permission. “We need murders,” muses Abbé Grisolles (Jacques Develay, pictured right) toward the […]
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