Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son.
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L’Enfant Secret is so intimate it feels like a confession
With this hard-to-see 1979 feature, French director Philippe Garrel moves past narrative to focus on intense emotion.
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Love is the drug in Andrzej Żuławski’s L’Important C’Est D’Aimer
Romantic passion consumes everything in this 1975 drama from the director of Possession.
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Get ready for Nocturama, an intense French thriller about a terror attack on Paris
Bertrand Bonello directed this intense drama about radicals bringing darkness to the City of Light.
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Free will is a bitch in Claude Sautet’s Les Choses de la Vie
Michel Piccoli stars as an emotionally conflicted man rescued from choosing by an awful car crash.
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Staying Vertical and Metamorphoses showcase the provocative side of French cinema
The latest films by Alain Guiraudie and Christophe Honoré open in Chicago this Friday.
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Not coming to the Disney Channel: Michel Gondry’s Microbe & Gasoline
With Microbe & Gasoline, Michel Gondry finds an emotional story equal to his imaginative talents.
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Ten new French features come to the Music Box
Our roundup of reviews of local debuts at the Chicago French Film Festival
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The surrealists’ moviegoing game (RIP Alain Resnais, 1922-2014)
The great French filmmaker, who passed away yesterday at 91, transformed the screening environment into a portal to the subconscious.
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This week in Claire Denis: A correspondence with Melika Bass and Lori Felker about The Intruder and Bastards
A discussion about the groundbreaking French director’s formal strategies with two artists who have worked in film
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This week in Claire Denis: Talking with Andrea Gronvall about I Can’t Sleep and Trouble Every Day
A conversation about two of the French filmmaker’s most challenging and most lurid films
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The funniest filmmaker you’ve never heard of
French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center
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Chicago French Film Festival
The Chicago French Film Festival, 7/27-7/29 at the Music Box
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L’auteur de la semaine: Benoit Jacquot
Considering how Farewell, My Queen, opening this week, fits into director Benoit Jacquot’s varied body of work
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How film history gets rewritten
Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1” demonstrates how film history can be determined by lack of information.