CIFF 2019
Films I plan to see at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.
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- DirectorLeticia JorgeStarsNéstor GuzziniMirella PascualCristina MoránThe death of their father causes three dysfunctional siblings to fight over their beloved childhood home.8/10
Thursday, October 17 @ 5:45 - DirectorMinhal BaigStarsGeraldine ViswanathanJack KilmerGabriel LunaMuslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.7/10
Friday, October 18 @ 5:45 - DirectorTravis StevensStarsPhil BrooksTrieste Kelly DunnSarah BrooksDon Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.8/10
Friday, October 18 @ 11:00 - DirectorPedro CostaStarsVitalina VarelaVenturaManuel Tavares AlmeidaA Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.5/10
Monday, October 21 @ 8:00 - DirectorMarcelo GomesA small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation's capital of jeans. It's also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.9/10
Thursday, October 24 @ 1:30 - DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsJean DujardinAdèle HaenelAlbert DelpyA man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.9/10
Friday, October 25 @ 10:45 - DirectorBas DevosStarsSaadia BentaïebLaurent KumbaJovial MbengaAfter a long day at work, Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot.10/10 (best of the festival)
Saturday, October 26 @ 12:30 - DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.9/10
Sunday, October 27 @ 7:30 - DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsJonathan PryceAnthony HopkinsJuan MinujínBehind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.Abstain (I got there 21 minutes late and left after 51 minutes)
Saturday, October 26 @ 5:15 - DirectorShannon MurphyStarsEliza ScanlenMichelle LottersToby WallaceMilla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.Possibly
Thursday, October 17 @ 3:00 - DirectorMaryam TouzaniStarsLubna AzabalNisrin ErradiDouae BelkhaoudaAbla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman, knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever.Possibly
Friday, October 18 @ 5:45 - DirectorHalina ReijnStarsCarice van HoutenMarwan KenzariMarie-Mae van ZuilenIn spite of her expertise and experience, a seasoned psychologist is completely infatuated by the sex offender she is treating in a penal institution.Possibly
Monday, October 21 @ 5:30 - DirectorEva MulvadLea GlobMorten RanmarStarsSahandLeilaManiA poignant portrait of a family of asylum seekers desperate to start a new life, but stalled in bureaucratic limbo.Possibly
Tuesday, October 22 @ 5:45 - DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPierfrancesco FavinoMaria Fernanda CândidoFabrizio FerracaneThe real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.Possibly
Tuesday, October 22 @ 8:30 - DirectorCarlo SironiStarsClaudio SegaluscioSandra DrzymalskaBruno BuzziLena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law cause in Italy the surrogate motherhood is forbidden. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matter. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only think about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.Possibly
Thursday, October 24 @ 3:45 - DirectorDamien ManivelStarsAgathe BonitzerManon CarpentierJulien DieudonnéAfter the death of her two children, the legendary dancer Isadora Duncan composed a farewell solo entitled "The Mother". A century later, four women meet this upsetting dance.Possibly
Thursday, October 24 @ 5:45 - DirectorJan KomasaStarsBartosz BieleniaAleksandra KoniecznaEliza RycembelDaniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.Possibly
Thursday, October 24 @ 8:45
Friday, October 25 @ 12:00 - DirectorLi ShihStarsYu-Hsia KaoYi-Chieh LeeShu-Fang ChenLittle Han lives in the mountains with his great-grandmother, Auntie Han-hsiao. In rainy days, Little Han sits in front of the fireplace listening to Auntie Han-hsiao's colorful and mysterious tales. One day he sees an injured and dying sparrow. With sadness, he digs a small cave and buries it. Looking at the sparrows flying in the mountains, he hopes one day he can leave the mountains. However, when his mother Ali, who works in nightclubs, takes him to city to live with her, he has to face the endless quarrels and fights between Ali and his boyfriend, a man who exploits Ali's body to make money. In Auntie Han-hsiao's funeral, while the burnt ashes swirling in the wind, Little Han returns to Auntie Han-hsiao's bedroom and curls himself up in the bed like the sparrow he has buried.Possibly
Friday, October 25 @ 7:45 - DirectorKasi LemmonsStarsCynthia ErivoJanelle MonáeLeslie Odom Jr.The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.Possibly
Saturday, October 26 @ 8:00 - DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsJames NortonVanessa KirbyPeter SarsgaardA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.Possibly
Sunday, October 27 @ 12:00 - DirectorJérémy ClapinStarsHakim FarisVictoire Du BoisPatrick d'AssumçaoA story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.Possibly
Sunday, October 27 @ 4:30 - DirectorJared P. ScottStarsInna ModjaSonghoy BluesDidier AwadiAcademy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God (2002)) and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey to the frontline of the climate crisis along Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall.Possibly
Sunday, October 27 @ 5:00