There’s a Malickian quality to the film that’s cheesy at moments, and the disjointed chronology is more aggravating than affecting.
Tag: Colin Firth
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Not coming to a theater near you, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Blood Ties and Gambit: Two genre films for the grown-ups
Blood Ties and Gambit: two genre films from the “disappearing middle” of American cinema
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The Patio’s last shows for a while, and the rest of this week’s movies
A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24
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This Week’s Movie Action
Summer in Genoa Rodrigo Garcia, who wrote and directed the excellent Nine Lives (2005), scales down to three lives (and change) for his latest feature, Mother and Child, the subject of this week’s long review. We also have a Critic’s Choice for Michael Winterbottom’s Summer in Genoa, starring Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, and Hope Davis.
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Tom Ford’s Single Man
Fashion designer Tom Ford’s adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man, about a grieving gay professor during the Cuban missile crisis, screens Monday 10/19 in the Chicago International Film Festival.