- Alain Guiraudie was born on July 15, 1964 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France. He is a director and writer, known for Stranger by the Lake (2013), That Old Dream That Moves (2001) and The King of Escape (2009).
- Member of the jury at the Belfort International Film Festival in 2004.
- [on Misericordia (2024)] The title came to me while I was writing this script. For me, mercy exceeds the question of forgiveness. It has to do with empathy, with understanding others beyond any morality. It's about reaching out to others. It's an old-fashioned word that we don't use much anymore, and it becomes the film well, its timelessness, and above one of the great characters in it, namely the priest.
- [on Misericordia (2024)] It's a twilight film. It begins with a funeral and ends in a cemetery at night. A man returns to the place of his adolescence, his early youth, and gradually finds himself imprisoned there. Autumn suits the film's themes. Autumn is melancholy. It offers beautiful light and colour. And it also brings its share of bad weather, fog, and wind. I was very interested in filming in November. But the colourful autumn - the red and yellow leaves - doesn't last long, three weeks or a month. Here, it was risky and fragile - when we were shooting, we hoped that the leaves would stick to the trees - and in a few days we went from summer to winter.
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