When Rhiannon returns home from a trip, she finds the flat left in a mess from her partner. When tidying she notices something out of place, and soon discovers the question of infidelity is not the only shock.
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.
The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.
I was able to sit down and talk with the director of the short film Dog Lover Anne-Sophie Bine as she discussed and how she came to be in film.
Even without the messaging, Mercy does not hold up as a movie. It's sloppily done and the mystery doesn’t tie together at the end.
