Interview With "Misericordia" Director/Writer Alain Guiraudie

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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"Misericordia" had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Premiere section, where it competed for the Queer Palm. It received positive reviews and later went to screen at the Telluride and New York Film Festivals (where this interview took place). Director/Writer Alain Guiraudie was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters on March 14th, from Janus Sideshow Films. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Dan Baer's interview with the writer and
0:20.2	director for Misery Cordia. Elaine Giraldi. Where is you had been again pasted, all the journey? I was with the curie. Well, he'd be more to do say des mess, rather than to be to go to be. I can rest. This night? Even, some days. Well days Well, you do what you want
0:38.5	There's still the chame of Vincent
0:40.0	Oh, you rest here?
0:41.5	You like, man?
0:42.7	Yeah
0:43.7	I'm gonna make a machine
0:46.0	There's a
0:47.1	There's a little
0:49.1	At least?
0:50.1	I was a little at the time.
0:51.2	We'd be a frequent a lot of the time. Welcome to not very much. And I'm to appreciate? Welcome everyone to the next best picture podcast where we are interviewing
1:10.5	Alain Guirondi, the writer and director of the new film,
1:14.7	Misericordia. Alain, thank you so much for joining us today.
1:19.2	Okay, thank you. Thank you to invite me.
1:22.4	Very, very happy to be speaking with you about this film which just premiered at the new york film festival
1:28.9	there was a wonderful q-na that you did after the screening last night and you talked about
1:35.5	wanting to make a sexual film without any sexual acts in it which is a very intriguing idea.
1:45.5	But I'm curious what the actual genesis of this project was.
1:51.1	What was the spark that made you want to write this film, this story?
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