Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The glum yet faintly impish Félix Kysyl plays Jérémie, a young man who returns to a village in southern France after the ...

At the Award Ceremony of the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), awards were presented to the winners of the festival’s five competition programmes and PÖFF’s youth and children’s film sub ...

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the North American rights to “Misericordia,” written and directed by Alain Guiraudie (“Stranger by the Lake”), the companies announced on Friday. The film stars ...

Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) is an interesting fellow. He’s got one of those faces that seems reminiscent of several different people at the same time (in this case, young Edward Furlong, Rainer Werner ...

The first scene of this film—of a lone driver navigating at night the curving, densely wooded roads of rural southern France—suggests something of what is to come. The camera, rather than showing us ...

With a cast mixing French mainstream favourite Catherine Frot (Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite) with newcomers and other unfamiliar faces, Misericordia is one of Guiraudie’s more accessible works. It ...

Arthouse stalwart Janus Films took home the second annual Unifrance Distribution Prize at this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, collecting $11,646 in recognition of its handling of Alain ...

Tell it one way and the premise of “Misericordia” sounds like a Sunday-night mystery on PBS: A man returns to a picturesque village for a funeral, but old friendships and resentments rear their heads ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arthouse stalwart Janus Films took home the second annual Unifrance Distribution Prize at this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in ...