Misericordia: A French Noir from the Director of Stranger by the Lake

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We’re in a blandly upmarket hotel in central London, the kind where Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now pipes softly from the function-room PA for no particular reason, and Alain Guiraudie is explaining to me the importance of seeing a priest’s erection in his new film, Misericordia. “It’s funny but it’s also kind of touching because it’s the manifestation of his desire,” he says, twisting ahellip;