Oh Mercy!
From one year to the next, the Cinémathèque québécoise takes the pulse of recent and current French cinema, in partnership with the Institut français, in order to follow the evolution of an increasingly diversified French production.
Roubaix, one Christmas night. Commissioner Daoud travels through the city where he grew up. Burned cars, altercations... Louis Coterelle, a recent graduate, has just arrived at the police station. Daoud and Louis are going to face the murder of an old woman. Two young women are questioned, Claude and Marie. Destitute, alcoholic, in love.
Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin (born 31 October 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. Desplechin's first feature-length movie, The Sentinel, premiered in 1992 at Cannes, starring Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni, and Lászlo Szabó. Desplechin's 1996 film My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument was critically successful. In 2000, Desplechin made his first English-language film, Esther Kahn, adapted from a short story by Arthur Symons, and starred Summer Phoenix in the title role. The film was seen as a homage to François Truffaut's work. In 2019 film Oh Mercy! was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival constituting his seventh film selected in the main competition.
