The second round of 2021 Chicago International Film Festival reviews takes us to a Ukrainian prison, the Iranian roads, and a cold Kurdish boarding school. Here’s another dispatch of wonderful international cinema.
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Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Wes Anderson
Stars: Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Benicio Del Toro, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Owen Wilson, Edward Norton.
Synopsis: A story about...
Director: Sarah Smith, Jean-Philippe Vine, and Octavio E. Rodriguez
Writer: Peter Baynham and Sarah Smith
Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, and Rob Delaney.
Synopsis: The story of Barney, an...
Director: Paolo SorrentinoWriter: Paolo SorrentinoStars: Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri
Synopsis: In 1980s Naples, Italy, a young man experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a...
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya
Synopsis: The feature adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, about...
Director: Adam Randall
Writer: Brent Dillon
Stars: Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raúl Castillo, Alfie Allen, Marlene Forte, Alexander Ludwig, Sydney Sweeney, Megan Fox
Synopsis: A college student moonlighting as a chauffeur picks...
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...
