Premiere in Catalonia. Awards: Golden Spike at the Valladolid Festival (Seminci)
In a small town in the north of France, the sudden disappearance of a young woman brings to light hidden secrets and uncomfortable revelations among its inhabitants, confronting the darkest and fiercest side of the community.
What do we do with someone who has committed the irremediable? Is it possible that one day he will redeem himself? Guiraudie continues to explore the edges of grey to confront what is inexplicable. His affinity for what most reject leads him to seek mystery from simplicity. Unfulfilled desire is often the most exciting, and at this point we find one of the lines that guide his cinema. Mercy impregnates us with contradictions and opposite feelings, which drag us along, and it is here where we can find a way to access his work. The pretext of But Who’s the Cottage Cheese in Harry?, by Alfred Hitchcock (1955), serves here to bring us closer to some of the most disturbing dilemmas of our existence.
