Watching the watchers at the Chicago International Film Festival
Tag: Xavier Beauvois
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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
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Best of 2011, number 1: Of Gods and Men
J.R. Jones on Of Gods and Men, his favorite film of 2011.
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Critic’s Choice: Of Gods and Men
No one knows for sure what happened to the seven French monks who were kidnapped during the Algerian civil war and found dead in May 1996. But Xavier Beauvois, who directed and cowrote this moving spiritual drama (2010), doesn’t bother himself with that mystery; he’s more concerned with the faith and devotion of the victims, […]