The 2021 Chicago International Film Festival offers a rich and vast array of quality international cinema, and for this dispatch of reviews, we are going to take a look into three films...
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Synopsis: On the verge of marriage to his long-time boyfriend, a successful academic in Denmark is confronted with a secret from his past.
The crisis of Afghanistan has been tragically...
Director: Sean Baker
Writer: Chris Bergoch, Sean Baker
Stars: Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, Suzanna Son
Synopsis: A washed-up porn star clashes with his estranged wife after returning to his hometown in Texas.
The films of Sean...
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem
Synopsys: Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science...
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma
Synopsys: Two single women meet in a hospital room where they are both going...
Director: Wang Qiong
Synopsys: With an HD camera, 22-year-old Qiong investigates abortions and desertion in her family, exploring complex societal power over women’s bodies and trying to heal and reconcile the family’s four...
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Synopsis: Follows the story of the Wild Boars youth soccer team who got trapped and their dramatic 2018 rescue.
When coming up with the list of films that...
Directors: Tahir Rana, Éric Warin
Writers: Erik Rutherford, David Bezmozgis
Starring: Keira Knightley, Marion Cotillard, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent
Synopsis: An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon living in the south of France between 1941...
