Sideshow and Janus Films have unveiled a five-city U.S. tour for Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia later this month.
After opening at the IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center in New York and the Landmark’s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles on March 21, the film head to Boston, Chicago and more cities on March 28 and San Francisco on April 4.
Misericordia debuted at the Cannes Premiere section in 2024 and has since screened at Telluride, Toronto, New York and AFI.
The film was nominated for eight César Awards and was one of three films considered for the French Oscar entry that eventually went to Emilia Pérez.
Félix Kysyl stars as a seemingly benign, out-of-work baker who drifts back to his small hometown after the death of his beloved former boss.
Staying on after the funeral, he begins to insinuate himself into his late mentor’s family, living with his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot), in a move that upsets her venomously jealous son (Jean-Baptiste Durand). Before long, small-town pleasantries are tangled into a web of violent criminal behavior and erotic physical desire.
Ahead of the U.S. release, the Criterion Channel is running a retrospective season of Guiraudie’s films including his erotically charged That Old Dream That Moves, which was hailed by Jean-Luc Godard as the best film at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival; international breakout Stranger By the Lake; Staying Vertical; and idiosyncratic sex comedy Nobody’s Hero.
Sideshow and Janus have also released a new trailer featuring quotes from Ari Aster, Claire Denis, Miguel Gomes, Radu Jude and Payal Kapadia.
The release comes hot on the heels of Sideshow and Janus’ second Academy Award for Flow, which was the first independent to ever win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, with other recent titles including All We Imagine As Light and Vermiglio.