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On the eve of his execution, a prisoner’s attempts to escape lead him down a rabbit hole of hallucinations.
Bleak and distinctively animated, German filmmaker Christoph Büttner’s odyssey of madness is hard to shake. A terrifying thriller that follows a convict’s desperate attempts to escape his cell, In His Mercy is a descent into the outer reaches of the mind that’s unflinching, sometimes surreal and visually breathtaking to behold.
