In Search Of Lost Time: A Review Of Return To Seoul
A whimsical choice changes the life of Freddie, a twenty-five-year-old Frenchwoman who returns to South Korea years after she was adopted there.
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By Ray Pride
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A whimsical choice changes the life of Freddie, a twenty-five-year-old Frenchwoman who returns to South Korea years after she was adopted there.
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THIS WEEK: “EO” at FACETS; “One Image, Two Acts” at Block; “Short Threads” and “Tokyo Drifter” at Chicago Film Society; “Destiny,” “Who Killed Captain Alex?” and “A Most Wanted Man” at DOC Films; the Chicago European Union Film Festival at Siskel; and “Irreversible,” “Virgin Suicides” and “Return To Seoul” at Music Box. Plus the Irish Film Festival and Joe Swanberg’s “Secret Saturday.”
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EU Film Festival or “John Wick : Chapter 4” — choices, choices
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THIS WEEK: “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” continues at River East and AMC Evanston; “The 25th Hour” at DOC Films; “Out of Time: The Material Issue Story” and Possession” at Alamo Drafthouse; “Pacifiction,” and the Chicago European Union Film Festival at Siskel; and “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” and “Charlie’s Angels” at Music Box.
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Noé’s brutal, crushing punishing-of-the-innocent “Irreversible” came out in 2002. Twenty-plus years later, we have the American release, which twists the story into a form that was never planned: linear, chronological order.
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THIS WEEK: “The Master” at DOC Films; “First Man” at The Block; and The 2023 Academy Award Nominated Shorts at both Music Box and Siskel.
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THIS WEEK: a list of “Galentine’s” at FACETS February 10-12; “Zabriskie Point” at Chicago Film Society; “28 Days Later,” “Dead Man” and “The Savages” at DOC Films; “The Host”, the Annual Festival of Films From Iran and “See You Friday, Robinson” at Siskel; and “Some Like It Hot” and “Paris Is Burning” at Music Box.
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At the end of the world in a rental cabin in a night full of strangers.
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THIS WEEK: heaping helpings of film history in a partial list of offerings around town: “Forbidden Paradise” at Chicago Film Society; “Dancer in the Dark” and “Scent Of A Woman” at DOC Films; “One Fine Morning,” “Argento 1970s” and “War and Peace” at Siskel; and “Close,” “Ace in the Hole” and “Escape from New York” at Music Box.
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Almost nothing has been written about Walter Hill or his great work. A new book, which the director cooperated with, is “A Walter Hill Film” by critic Walter Chaw. There’s much I learned even as a lifelong student of Hill’s work: “The Warriors.” “Streets of Fire.” “48 HRS.”
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