Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia, a rural melodrama with a sinister twist, has received France’s Louis Delluc prize for greatest movie of the 12 months.
The comedic crime thriller follows a person who returns to his native small city for a funeral, the place his keep is greeted by surprising twists.
Misericordia premiered in Cannes and went on to play the autumn pageant trifecta of Telluride, Toronto and New York. Oscar and Bafta-winning Anatomy Of A Fall notably took the identical post-Cannes route in 2023.
Les Movies du Losange has offered Misericordia to a slew of territories together with Sideshow and Janus Movies for North America and New Wave Movies within the UK. It has had a stable run on the French field workplace, drawing 210,000 admissions since its October 16 launch through Les Movies du Losange’s distribution arm.
The movie stars Felix Kysyl, Catherine Frot and Jean-Baptiste Durand. Charles Gillibert produced through his CG Cinema label.
The Louis Delluc prize for greatest first movie went to a different Cannes premiere, Jonathan Millet’s Critics’ Week opening title Ghost Path starring Adam Bessa as a Syrian refugee on a quest for justice in France. It’s produced by Movies Grand Huit and offered by mk2 Movies.
The Louis Delluc prize has been round since 1937 and is awarded by a jury of movie critics and professionals and presided over by former Cannes Movie Pageant director Gilles Jacob. It historically kicks off awards season in France, setting the stage for contenders prone to determine in ceremonies together with the César awards and the Lumières.
Final 12 months’s Louis Delluc prize went to Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom, which led the César nominations with 12 nods, whereas the very best first movie award went to Iris Kaltenbäck’s The Rapture which went on to assert the Lumière for greatest debut characteristic.