Picked up out of Cannes in 2024, the darkly comic thriller enjoyed a high-profile fall festival run and an awards campaign that landed it on the four-film shortlist for France’s submission for the international feature film Oscar. While it ultimately fell short of an Oscar slot, “Misericordia” more than made up for it with critical acclaim, winning the Louis-Delluc Prize, being named best film of the year by Cahiers du Cinéma, and earning enthusiastic praise from John Waters, who called it “an impossibly perverse thriller…leaving the audience stunned by sexual plot twists and a lulu of an ending.”
As Janus prepared the film’s U.S. theatrical rollout last March, the distributor leaned into precisely the qualities that prompted Waters’ exclamation: “Yikes!
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