This Week at Facets! August 21-27!

It's laughs all around at Facets this week.

Swedish director Roy Andersson's absolutely brilliant dark comedy, You, The Living, makes its long-awaited Chicago debut at the Cinematheque with an exclusive two-week run! You NEED to see this! Sincerely.

Recommended! "Brilliant" -Chicago Reader

"Somewhere between Kaurismäki, Buñuel and the Far Side cartoons...You won't know whether to laugh or cry" -TimeOut London

"A very funny film--though in the darkest possible way...this is the work of a real original--I might almost say a genius...with a technical, compositional rigour that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame" -The Guardian

Trailer!


You, The Living runs Friday, August 21--Thursday, September 3.

On Saturday, Facets Night School gets in on the action with "Fletching Out the Details: Does This Lecture Entail My Dressing Up as Little Bo Peep?," an examination of the 1985 Chevy Chase comedy, Fletch, about a down-on-his-luck newspaperman with a knack for stumbling upon mysteries.

Facets staffer Eric Holst investigates this under-rated neo-noir comedy, from the detailed nuances of director Michael Richie's style to the film's relationship with post-Watergate investigative journalism.

Trailer! Again!


Fletch it all out this Saturday, August 22 at MIDNIGHT! Lecture, screening, discussion--only $5!

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