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OCTOBER 13 - 27, 2016 |
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 Oct 13-27, 2016
AMC River East 21
322 East Illinois Street - Chicago
For 52 years, the Chicago International Film Festival has brought the windy city an exciting selection of bold, groundbreaking, highly acclaimed work from around the globe. In the most thrilling movie event of the year, the festival brings Chicago the unique opportunity to see world-class cinema, from new discoveries to international prize-winners. So this is your chance to not only see them first, but up on the big screen. Come join us for some of the most exhilarating original French Films , Films co-produced by France or French language films the festival has to offer. See it first!
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| FIRST LOOK FRANCE |
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Director Claude Lelouch (1966) - Restored Print (2016)
With Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant
On its 50th anniversary, enjoy a newly restored print
of the classic, Cannes-winning 1966 romantic charmer by Claude Lelouch, longtime friend of the Festival. In partneship with Paris Franco-American Champs-Elysées Festival *Director Claude Lelouch in attendance on October 15 Trailer
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Director Marie Madinier (2016)
With Charlotte Le Bon and Guillaume Canet
With the help of penguins, two humans march toward love in this unique subzero romantic comedy. In partneship with Paris Franco-American Champs-Elysées Festival Trailer
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Director André Téchiné (2016)
With Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein
The picturesque French Pyrenees play home to a heartfelt coming-of-age LGBTQ drama.* Trailer FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Director Paul Verhoeven (2016)
With Isabelle Huppert and Laurent Lafitte from The Comédie-Française
With hidden desires unexpectedly aroused and childhood traumas resurfacing, Michèle (Isabelle Huppert in an enthralling performance) goes on a journey that challenges our most widely held assumptions about femininity and power. Trailer
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Director Justine Triet (2016)
With Virginie Efira
A vibrant romantic comedy buoyed by irresistible lead performances, In Bed with Victoria stars Virginie Efira as a high-powered criminal lawyer trying to juggle her career, kids, and love life without much success. In partneship with Paris Franco-American Champs-Elysées Festival Trailer
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Director Bertrand Tavernier (2016)
A masterclass in the art of the moving image and a loving tribute to the history of Gallic film from the celebrated director of A Sunday in the Country. Trailer
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Director Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (2016)
With Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
From the dynamic comedy duo of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (The Fairy, Rumba) comes a quirky, utterly charming comedy about Fiona who visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing. Trailer
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Directors Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau (2016)
With Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot
A raw, emotionally charged hybrid of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy and Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, Paris 05:59 transpires in (mostly) real time over the course of one memorable evening in the City of Lights. Trailer
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Director Constance Meyer (2016)
Short film
With Gérard Depardieu
A lonely man (Gérard Depardieu) living in an apartment complex strikes up an unlikely friendship with a small baby. This film screens as part of Shorts 5: In A Lonely Place FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Director Julia Ducournau (2016)
With Garance Marillier
In French - Belgium, France
This gruesome feminist horror tale cooks up a deadly dish of sexual identity with a dash of dark humor and a generous helping of gore. Trailer
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Director Alain Guiraudie (2016)
From the director of the highly acclaimed Stranger by the Lake comes a bizarre, sexy portrait of a frustrated artist. Trailer
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Director Mia Hansen-Løve (2016)
With Isabelle Huppert
A profoundly humanist drama from a rising auteur about a passionate middle-aged philosophy professor (Isabelle Huppert) who rethinks her already much-examined life after an unforeseen divorce. Trailer
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Director Claude Lelouch
With Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein
When a composer goes to India to write the score for the Indian version of "Romeo and Juliet," he meets the wife of the French ambassador and a complicated relationship begins. A modern spin on Claude Lelouch's classic
A Man and a Woman. *Director Claude Lelouch and Actress Elsa Zylberstein in attendance on October 14 Trailer FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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| FRENCH LANGUAGE FILMS |
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Director Roberto Andò (2016)
With Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, Lambert Wilson
In English, French, Italian - France, Italy
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Director Raoul Peck (2016)
Documentary
Belgium, France, Switzerland, United States
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Director Solveig Anspach (2016)
With Florence Loiret Caille, Samir Guesmi
It’s sink or swim in this quirky romantic comedy, the final film by the late, great director Solveig Anspach (Queen of Montreuil). Trailer
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| CO-PRODUCED BY FRANCE |
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