One of the Best, Twistiest Thrillers Ever Was Already Remade Once and It’s So Due for a Second Go-Round
In the 1950s, there was a massive boom in noir thrillers hitting movie theaters, with Alfred Hitchcock taking the lead with his stone-cold classics Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, and Rear ...
‘Misericordia’ Review: Danger Always Hides in the Bushes
The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest.
A provocative stranger returns home in ‘Misericordia,’ a murder mystery free of convention
Alain Guiraudie, the French writer-director, shapes his penchant for queer subject matter into something that owes much to ...
‘Misericordia’ review: A funeral mourner sparks a tiny French village’s erotic roundelay
Under wraps or busting out all over, inconvenient yearning is everywhere in the films of Alain Guiraudie.  And like most of ...
‘Misericordia’ Review: Alain Guiraudie’s Drama of Desire
The French director’s strange, twisty film follows a man who returns to a village for a funeral and becomes the center of a ...