In two new films, Olivier Assayas and Joanna Hogg withhold information to poke and provoke viewers.
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The Chicago International Film Festival returns, this time with more experiments and work by female directors
It lacks some of the buzzier movies from the international festival circuit, but there’s still plenty worth seeing. Our critics weigh in on 24 offerings.
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French filmmaker Andre Techine revisits the mystery of a vanished heiress
In the Name of My Daughter dramatizes the 1977 disappearance of Agnes Le Roux.
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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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Have one on Studs, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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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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Another week, another solid French movie hits Chicago
Previewing Cedric Kahn’s superb French melodrama A Better Life, which screens at the Music Box’s French film series this week