Alain Guiraudie Interview
Meet the Filmmakers
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17m
Get to know Alain Guiraudie, the director of the tantalizing comic thriller MISERICORDIA. In the following interview, Guiraudie (who is also a novelist) reflects on the differences between filmmaking and writing fiction, his fond fascination for small-town life, his goal of exploring eroticism through working-class bodies, and more.
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