A priest with an erection is hardly the most haunting image in the "Stranger by the Lake" director's latest. Guiraudie is most celebrated for “Stranger by the Lake,” which Cahiers du Cinema named the ...

The latest feature from the director of 'Stranger by the Lake' stars Félix Kysyl as a man who returns to his French village and stirs up plenty of trouble. By Jordan Mintzer Revisiting the murder ...

A man visits his childhood village for the funeral of a family friend and upends the lives of the local eccentrics in the French director's weird and earthy return to form. The impression is dispelled ...

Alain Guiraudie’s marvelously unsentimental French thriller “Misericordia” begins in a mood of death, one it never quite shakes as events pick up in a twisty way. A baker has died. He lived in the ...

Forget “be gay, do crimes.” The latest moviegoing French import says “be gay, do sins.” Coming from provocateur Alain Guiraudie, Misericordia is a must-see comedic thriller that skewers small town ...

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 reviewed ...

Maverick director Alain Guiraudie rarely makes concessions. Through offbeat titles like 2013’s “Stranger by the Lake,” 2016’s “Staying Vertical” and 2022’s “Nobody’s Hero,” the French filmmaker has ...

For 30-odd years, the queer, working-class films of the French writer-director Alain Guiraudie have explored the strange vagaries of desire with a deadpan sensibility. In Stranger By The Lake (his ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The glum yet faintly impish Félix Kysyl plays Jérémie, a young man who returns to a village in southern France after the ...