Félix Kysyl

A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Returning to his rural hometown to attend the funeral of the mentor he loved, enigmatic, sexually fluid drifter Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) stirs up long-simmering feelings of lust, jealousy, and rage among those he left behind—including the dead man’s widow (Catherine Frot), her hot-tempered son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), and a curiously protective local priest (Jacques Develay) with whom Jérémie forges a twisted bond. Amid the evocatively earthy milieu, Guiraudie constructs a slippery, continuously surprising moral universe where love and hatred, eroticism and violence, spiritual grace and mortal sin, are intimately entwined.

Diane, 16, is tired of her symbiotic bond with her mother.

It’s 1967, and Jean-Luc Godard is reimagining his art. His marriage to Anna Karina is over. Sensing cultural and political change in the air a full year before the unrest of May ’68, he embarks on a new film, La Chinoise, with a new woman, actress and student activist Anne Wiazemsky.