Misericorde (2024)

• 84%
• 2024
• Drama
• Nataša Prosenc Stearns
• Natasha Maidoff
• Carmela Segal
• Alan Joseph Marx

In the Middle Ages a misericorde was a weapon used to put a wounded knight out of his misery. As a theological term, it refers to forgiveness and compassion. In French it has been used as an invocation, notably in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "Christ have mercy on us!" That there may be no one listening (or arriving) remains a central anguish, felt in the depression, addiction and other disorders, that are normal responses to increasingly abnormal culture.