# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: 2026 French Film Festival presents:

MISERICORDIA ["Miséricorde"]
(Alain Guiraudie, 2024, 103 min, France, French w/ English subtitles, DCP)

-- Introduced by Prof. Eric Disbro (Romance Studies); Q&A to follow

The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (STRANGER BY THE LAKE), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). In Guiraudie’s quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire. The French director is at the top of his game in MISERICORDIA, again upending all genre expectations.

-- Ranked Best Film of 2024 by Cahiers du Cinéma

“As in his award-winning STRANGER BY THE LAKE, the director's penchant for blending queerness into Hitchcockian genre conventions keeps the story both compelling and enigmatic.” – NPR

“For sheer suspense, few recent thrillers match Alain Guiraudie’s low-key but high-anxiety mystery MISERICORDIA.” – Richard Brody

French Film Festival sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and made possible by the Albertine Cinemathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine; Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, Romance Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Duke Cinematic Arts.

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Event URL: https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/misericordia-alain-guiraudie-2024-2026-french-film-festival

French Film Festival website: 
https://francophone.duke.edu/news/2026-french-film-festival-jan-29-feb-13

View Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wk2SgBIoF4

Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.

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https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/covid-19-information

Parking Info: https://artscenter.duke.edu/parking
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/durham/misericordia-alain-guiraudie-2024-|-2026-french-film-festival/200029594354403
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, festivals, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Durham
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University
- **lat**: 36.000376410002
- **long**: -78.929635010002
- **full address**: Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, 2022 Campus Dr, Durham, NC 27708-9940, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival being held?
  - **A:** Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival takes place on Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, 2022 Campus Dr, Durham, NC 27708-9940, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival?
  - **A:** Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival is organized by Cinematic Arts at Duke.

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