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31 Aug 2024

🍿 MIFF number 18 and my final one was Misericordia (2024). ★★★½

A psychological study of repression and desire in a small rural town is what you think you're going to get. You do but the melodrama and sadness of the first half becomes philosophical and comedic through some unexpected plot twists in the second half. The glances, the unsaid thoughts, the desire of the characters, the catholic guilt over the top of it all. Some absurd dialogue that completely works and isn't out of place. Lovely camera work, with the use of day and night to help shift between the open and the secrets. You'll leave wondering if the main character is a manipulative psychopath or a hapless idiot bumbling through one mishap after another. You won't leave wondering about the priest's desire for him though.

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