Shot in cool black and white, Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’s depiction of an intense New York restaurant handles the stories of undocumented workers with care.

In the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia hangs his most spectacular ... A half-naked Roman soldier is drawing his knife. A woman weeps. Another holds a platter to receive the head of John ...

No one genre suits him. Now at the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Landmark Century Centre Cinema, “Misericordia” begins with a homecoming, proceeds to a funeral, expands to other corners of a ...

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The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Guiraudie is most celebrated for “Stranger by the Lake,” which Cahiers du Cinema named the best film of 2013 (as they did with “Misericordia” last year). That film is a cult classic in the ...

To shoot his new thriller “Misericordia,” Alain Guiraudie went to the only place in the world capable of dredging up an all-consuming, metaphysical melancholy just by crossing the city limits ...

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 ...

French auteur Alain Guiraudie is exploring the implications of mercy in his new noir, “Misericordia.” The title, which literally translates to “mercy,” encompasses the “Stranger by the L ...

Guiraudie’s latest, Misericordia, feels in some ways like a deliberate inversion of that (sexually explicit) earlier film: first, because it features no sex whatsoever (though not for lack of ...