This film is being screened this week in Langogne and Saint-Chély-d'Apcher.
No need to go to the other side of the Earth to get a change of scenery: a little trip to Aveyron can be enough. If we are accompanied by Alain Guiraudie in any case.
The least we can say is that this filmmaker is never where you expect him to be and that he has a knack for creating unexpected scenarios for you: that of Mercy is full of surprises and twists and turns, the first pleasure of the thing.
We recognize his style in this open-air camera: a very personal way of approaching rurality and crime fiction, a creation of opaque characters, an offbeat humor and above all this theme, the real glue of the film: desire and multiple forms that he can take.
Bright and funny
Despite the darkness of what is told, the film is bright, funny, turned towards hedonism and pleasure, in a joyful catalog of trampled taboos: the love of men among themselves, between young and old, the sex of religious people. , Guiraudie breaks down the doors of right-thinking one by one and does so with astonishing simplicity.
No taboos with him, love is said and done with a beautiful frontality. Abandoning the cerebrality that somewhat confined his previous films, he tells his Bunuelian story in the most beautiful setting. He wonderfully captures the splendid autumn colors of the forest, the destitution of these small, lost villages, the simple little characters who inhabit them.
Totally surprising (a very clever person who can predict what will happen in the next scene), it constitutes a real journey, sensual, erotic, disturbing, funny: unmissable.
