7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Misericordia (2024)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.7
Overview
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film leans left by exploring themes of collective guilt and social responsibility for global misfortunes, indirectly referencing contemporary conflicts, and interrogating conscience in a manner that aligns with progressive calls for greater awareness and accountability.
The movie features significant LGBTQ+ characters and themes, which are central to its narrative. It explicitly challenges conventional ideas about sexuality and traditional moral norms, offering a strong critique of heteronormative structures within a rural French community.
Secondary
The film centrally features LGBTQ+ characters and themes, exploring complex sexual dynamics, lust, and repression. Its nomination for the Queer Palm indicates a significant and thoughtful engagement with queer identity, portraying characters with depth and agency despite a repressive setting and elements of jealousy and violence.
The film critically interrogates Christian themes, particularly Catholicism, by depicting a village priest who abuses his position for personal gain. Director Alain Guiraudie's description of Catholicism as 'anthropophagous' underscores the film's narrative stance, highlighting problematic aspects and the complex, often corrupting, interplay between faith and human desire.
Misericordia (2024) explores queer themes, specifically focusing on the experiences of cisgender gay men in a rural French village. Critical reviews and plot summaries indicate no portrayal of transsexual characters or direct engagement with the transsexual community within its narrative or thematic scope, leading to a classification of N/A for transsexual representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Misericordia" is an original work, not an adaptation or reboot of pre-existing material. Its characters are new creations, lacking a prior canonical or historical gender to be swapped from.
The film is an original work set in rural France, featuring characters created for the movie. There is no indication of pre-existing source material or historical figures whose race could have been altered, thus precluding a race swap.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.7
6.3
Critic Ratings
9.4
8.3
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